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 distro reports which distro we're running on.
package distro
import (
"bytes"
"os"
"runtime"
"strconv"
"strings"
"tailscale.com/types/lazy"
"tailscale.com/util/lineiter"
)
type Distro string
const (
Debian = Distro("debian")
Arch = Distro("arch")
Synology = Distro("synology")
OpenWrt = Distro("openwrt")
NixOS = Distro("nixos")
QNAP = Distro("qnap")
Pfsense = Distro("pfsense")
OPNsense = Distro("opnsense")
TrueNAS = Distro("truenas")
Gokrazy = Distro("gokrazy")
WDMyCloud = Distro("wdmycloud")
Unraid = Distro("unraid")
Alpine = Distro("alpine")
UBNT = Distro("ubnt") // Ubiquiti Networks
JetKVM = Distro("jetkvm")
)
var distro lazy.SyncValue[Distro]
var isWSL lazy.SyncValue[bool]
// Get returns the current distro, or the empty string if unknown.
func Get() Distro {
return distro.Get(func() Distro {
switch runtime.GOOS {
case "linux":
return linuxDistro()
case "freebsd":
return freebsdDistro()
default:
return Distro("")
}
})
}
// IsWSL reports whether we're running in the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
func IsWSL() bool {
return runtime.GOOS == "linux" && isWSL.Get(func() bool {
// We could look for $WSL_INTEROP instead, however that may be missing if
// the user has started to use systemd in WSL2.
return have("/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/WSLInterop") || have("/mnt/wsl")
})
}
func have(file string) bool {
_, err := os.Stat(file)
return err == nil
}
func haveDir(file string) bool {
fi, err := os.Stat(file)
return err == nil && fi.IsDir()
}
func linuxDistro() Distro {
switch {
case haveDir("/usr/syno"):
return Synology
case have("/usr/local/bin/freenas-debug"):
// TrueNAS Scale runs on debian
return TrueNAS
case have("/usr/bin/ubnt-device-info"):
// UBNT runs on Debian-based systems. This MUST be checked before Debian.
//
// Currently supported product families:
// - UDM (UniFi Dream Machine, UDM-Pro)
return UBNT
case have("/etc/debian_version"):
return Debian
case have("/etc/arch-release"):
return Arch
case have("/etc/openwrt_version"):
return OpenWrt
case have("/run/current-system/sw/bin/nixos-version"):
return NixOS
case have("/etc/config/uLinux.conf"):
return QNAP
case haveDir("/gokrazy"):
return Gokrazy
case have("/usr/local/wdmcserver/bin/wdmc.xml"): // Western Digital MyCloud OS3
return WDMyCloud
case have("/usr/sbin/wd_crontab.sh"): // Western Digital MyCloud OS5
return WDMyCloud
case have("/etc/unraid-version"):
return Unraid
case have("/etc/alpine-release"):
return Alpine
case runtime.GOARCH == "arm" && isDeviceModel("JetKVM"):
return JetKVM
}
return ""
}
func isDeviceModel(want string) bool {
if runtime.GOOS != "linux" {
return false
}
v, _ := os.ReadFile("/sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model")
return want == strings.Trim(string(v), "\x00\r\n\t ")
}
func freebsdDistro() Distro {
switch {
case have("/etc/pfSense-rc"):
return Pfsense
case have("/usr/local/sbin/opnsense-shell"):
return OPNsense
case have("/usr/local/bin/freenas-debug"):
// TrueNAS Core runs on FreeBSD
return TrueNAS
}
return ""
}
var dsmVersion lazy.SyncValue[int]
// DSMVersion reports the Synology DSM major version.
//
// If not Synology, it reports 0.
func DSMVersion() int {
if runtime.GOOS != "linux" {
return 0
}
return dsmVersion.Get(func() int {
if Get() != Synology {
return 0
}
// This is set when running as a package:
v, _ := strconv.Atoi(os.Getenv("SYNOPKG_DSM_VERSION_MAJOR"))
if v != 0 {
return v
}
// But when run from the command line, we have to read it from the file:
for lr := range lineiter.File("/etc/VERSION") {
line, err := lr.Value()
if err != nil {
break // but otherwise ignore
}
line = bytes.TrimSpace(line)
if string(line) == `majorversion="7"` {
return 7
}
if string(line) == `majorversion="6"` {
return 6
}
}
return 0
})
}