tailscale/util/multierr/multierr.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Package multierr provides a simple multiple-error type.
// It was inspired by github.com/go-multierror/multierror.
package multierr
import (
"errors"
"slices"
"strings"
)
// An Error represents multiple errors.
type Error struct {
errs []error
}
// Error implements the error interface.
func (e Error) Error() string {
s := new(strings.Builder)
s.WriteString("multiple errors:")
for _, err := range e.errs {
s.WriteString("\n\t")
s.WriteString(err.Error())
}
return s.String()
}
// Errors returns a slice containing all errors in e.
func (e Error) Errors() []error {
return slices.Clone(e.errs)
}
// Unwrap returns the underlying errors as-is.
func (e Error) Unwrap() []error {
// Do not clone since Unwrap requires callers to not mutate the slice.
// See the documentation in the Go "errors" package.
return e.errs
}
// New returns an error composed from errs.
// Some errors in errs get special treatment:
// - nil errors are discarded
// - errors of type Error are expanded into the top level
//
// If the resulting slice has length 0, New returns nil.
// If the resulting slice has length 1, New returns that error.
// If the resulting slice has length > 1, New returns that slice as an Error.
func New(errs ...error) error {
// First count the number of errors to avoid allocating.
var n int
var errFirst error
for _, e := range errs {
switch e := e.(type) {
case nil:
continue
case Error:
n += len(e.errs)
if errFirst == nil && len(e.errs) > 0 {
errFirst = e.errs[0]
}
default:
n++
if errFirst == nil {
errFirst = e
}
}
}
if n <= 1 {
return errFirst // nil if n == 0
}
// More than one error, allocate slice and construct the multi-error.
dst := make([]error, 0, n)
for _, e := range errs {
switch e := e.(type) {
case nil:
continue
case Error:
dst = append(dst, e.errs...)
default:
dst = append(dst, e)
}
}
return Error{errs: dst}
}
// Is reports whether any error in e matches target.
func (e Error) Is(target error) bool {
for _, err := range e.errs {
if errors.Is(err, target) {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// As finds the first error in e that matches target, and if any is found,
// sets target to that error value and returns true. Otherwise, it returns false.
func (e Error) As(target any) bool {
for _, err := range e.errs {
if ok := errors.As(err, target); ok {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// Range performs a pre-order, depth-first iteration of the error tree
// by successively unwrapping all error values.
// For each iteration it calls fn with the current error value and
// stops iteration if it ever reports false.
func Range(err error, fn func(error) bool) bool {
if err == nil {
return true
}
if !fn(err) {
return false
}
switch err := err.(type) {
case interface{ Unwrap() error }:
if err := err.Unwrap(); err != nil {
if !Range(err, fn) {
return false
}
}
case interface{ Unwrap() []error }:
for _, err := range err.Unwrap() {
if !Range(err, fn) {
return false
}
}
}
return true
}