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 setting
import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
jsonv2 "github.com/go-json-experiment/json"
"github.com/go-json-experiment/json/jsontext"
"tailscale.com/types/opt"
"tailscale.com/types/structs"
"tailscale.com/util/syspolicy/pkey"
)
// RawItem contains a raw policy setting value as read from a policy store, or an
// error if the requested setting could not be read from the store. As a special
// case, it may also hold a value of the [Visibility], [PreferenceOption],
// or [time.Duration] types. While the policy store interface does not support
// these types natively, and the values of these types have to be unmarshalled
// or converted from strings, these setting types predate the typed policy
// hierarchies, and must be supported at this layer.
type RawItem struct {
_ structs.Incomparable
data rawItemJSON
}
// rawItemJSON holds JSON-marshallable data for [RawItem].
type rawItemJSON struct {
Value RawValue `json:",omitzero"`
Error *ErrorText `json:",omitzero"` // or nil
Origin *Origin `json:",omitzero"` // or nil
}
// RawItemOf returns a [RawItem] with the specified value.
func RawItemOf(value any) RawItem {
return RawItemWith(value, nil, nil)
}
// RawItemWith returns a [RawItem] with the specified value, error and origin.
func RawItemWith(value any, err *ErrorText, origin *Origin) RawItem {
return RawItem{data: rawItemJSON{Value: RawValue{opt.ValueOf(value)}, Error: err, Origin: origin}}
}
// Value returns the value of the policy setting, or nil if the policy setting
// is not configured, or an error occurred while reading it.
func (i RawItem) Value() any {
return i.data.Value.Get()
}
// Error returns the error that occurred when reading the policy setting,
// or nil if no error occurred.
func (i RawItem) Error() error {
if i.data.Error != nil {
return i.data.Error
}
return nil
}
// Origin returns an optional [Origin] indicating where the policy setting is
// configured.
func (i RawItem) Origin() *Origin {
return i.data.Origin
}
// String implements [fmt.Stringer].
func (i RawItem) String() string {
var suffix string
if i.data.Origin != nil {
suffix = fmt.Sprintf(" - {%v}", i.data.Origin)
}
if i.data.Error != nil {
return fmt.Sprintf("Error{%q}%s", i.data.Error.Error(), suffix)
}
return fmt.Sprintf("%v%s", i.data.Value.Value, suffix)
}
var (
_ jsonv2.MarshalerTo = (*RawItem)(nil)
_ jsonv2.UnmarshalerFrom = (*RawItem)(nil)
)
// MarshalJSONTo implements [jsonv2.MarshalerTo].
func (i RawItem) MarshalJSONTo(out *jsontext.Encoder) error {
return jsonv2.MarshalEncode(out, &i.data)
}
// UnmarshalJSONFrom implements [jsonv2.UnmarshalerFrom].
func (i *RawItem) UnmarshalJSONFrom(in *jsontext.Decoder) error {
return jsonv2.UnmarshalDecode(in, &i.data)
}
// MarshalJSON implements [json.Marshaler].
func (i RawItem) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
return jsonv2.Marshal(i) // uses MarshalJSONTo
}
// UnmarshalJSON implements [json.Unmarshaler].
func (i *RawItem) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
return jsonv2.Unmarshal(b, i) // uses UnmarshalJSONFrom
}
// RawValue represents a raw policy setting value read from a policy store.
// It is JSON-marshallable and facilitates unmarshalling of JSON values
// into corresponding policy setting types, with special handling for JSON numbers
// (unmarshalled as float64) and JSON string arrays (unmarshalled as []string).
// See also [RawValue.UnmarshalJSONFrom].
type RawValue struct {
opt.Value[any]
}
// RawValueType is a constraint that permits raw setting value types.
type RawValueType interface {
bool | uint64 | string | []string
}
// RawValueOf returns a new [RawValue] holding the specified value.
func RawValueOf[T RawValueType](v T) RawValue {
return RawValue{opt.ValueOf[any](v)}
}
var (
_ jsonv2.MarshalerTo = (*RawValue)(nil)
_ jsonv2.UnmarshalerFrom = (*RawValue)(nil)
)
// MarshalJSONTo implements [jsonv2.MarshalerTo].
func (v RawValue) MarshalJSONTo(out *jsontext.Encoder) error {
return jsonv2.MarshalEncode(out, v.Value)
}
// UnmarshalJSONFrom implements [jsonv2.UnmarshalerFrom] by attempting to unmarshal
// a JSON value as one of the supported policy setting value types (bool, string, uint64, or []string),
// based on the JSON value type. It fails if the JSON value is an object, if it's a JSON number that
// cannot be represented as a uint64, or if a JSON array contains anything other than strings.
func (v *RawValue) UnmarshalJSONFrom(in *jsontext.Decoder) error {
var valPtr any
switch k := in.PeekKind(); k {
case 't', 'f':
valPtr = new(bool)
case '"':
valPtr = new(string)
case '0':
valPtr = new(uint64) // unmarshal JSON numbers as uint64
case '[', 'n':
valPtr = new([]string) // unmarshal arrays as string slices
case '{':
return fmt.Errorf("unexpected token: %v", k)
default:
panic("unreachable")
}
if err := jsonv2.UnmarshalDecode(in, valPtr); err != nil {
v.Value.Clear()
return err
}
value := reflect.ValueOf(valPtr).Elem().Interface()
v.Value = opt.ValueOf(value)
return nil
}
// MarshalJSON implements [json.Marshaler].
func (v RawValue) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
return jsonv2.Marshal(v) // uses MarshalJSONTo
}
// UnmarshalJSON implements [json.Unmarshaler].
func (v *RawValue) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
return jsonv2.Unmarshal(b, v) // uses UnmarshalJSONFrom
}
// RawValues is a map of keyed setting values that can be read from a JSON.
type RawValues map[pkey.Key]RawValue