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 version
import (
"strings"
)
// AtLeast returns whether version is at least the specified minimum
// version.
//
// Version comparison in Tailscale is a little complex, because we
// switched "styles" a few times, and additionally have a completely
// separate track of version numbers for OSS-only builds.
//
// AtLeast acts conservatively, returning true only if it's certain
// that version is at least minimum. As a result, it can produce false
// negatives, for example when an OSS build supports a given feature,
// but AtLeast is called with an official release number as the
// minimum
//
// version and minimum can both be either an official Tailscale
// version numbers (major.minor.patch-extracommits-extrastring), or an
// OSS build datestamp (date.YYYYMMDD). For Tailscale version numbers,
// AtLeast also accepts a prefix of a full version, in which case all
// missing fields are assumed to be zero.
func AtLeast(version string, minimum string) bool {
v, ok := parse(version)
if !ok {
return false
}
m, ok := parse(minimum)
if !ok {
return false
}
switch {
case v.Datestamp != 0 && m.Datestamp == 0:
// OSS version vs. Tailscale version
return false
case v.Datestamp == 0 && m.Datestamp != 0:
// Tailscale version vs. OSS version
return false
case v.Datestamp != 0:
// OSS version vs. OSS version
return v.Datestamp >= m.Datestamp
case v.Major == m.Major && v.Minor == m.Minor && v.Patch == m.Patch && v.ExtraCommits == m.ExtraCommits:
// Exactly equal Tailscale versions
return true
case v.Major != m.Major:
return v.Major > m.Major
case v.Minor != m.Minor:
return v.Minor > m.Minor
case v.Patch != m.Patch:
return v.Patch > m.Patch
default:
return v.ExtraCommits > m.ExtraCommits
}
}
type parsed struct {
Major, Minor, Patch, ExtraCommits int // for Tailscale version e.g. e.g. "0.99.1-20"
Datestamp int // for OSS version e.g. "date.20200612"
}
func parse(version string) (parsed, bool) {
if strings.HasPrefix(version, "date.") {
stamp, ok := atoi(version[5:])
if !ok {
return parsed{}, false
}
return parsed{Datestamp: stamp}, true
}
var ret parsed
major, rest, ok := splitNumericPrefix(version)
if !ok {
return parsed{}, false
}
ret.Major = major
if len(rest) == 0 {
return ret, true
}
ret.Minor, rest, ok = splitNumericPrefix(rest[1:])
if !ok {
return parsed{}, false
}
if len(rest) == 0 {
return ret, true
}
// Optional patch version, if the next separator is a dot.
if rest[0] == '.' {
ret.Patch, rest, ok = splitNumericPrefix(rest[1:])
if !ok {
return parsed{}, false
}
if len(rest) == 0 {
return ret, true
}
}
// Optional extraCommits, if the next bit can be completely
// consumed as an integer.
if rest[0] != '-' {
return parsed{}, false
}
var trailer string
ret.ExtraCommits, trailer, ok = splitNumericPrefix(rest[1:])
if !ok || (len(trailer) > 0 && trailer[0] != '-') {
// rest was probably the string trailer, ignore it.
ret.ExtraCommits = 0
}
return ret, true
}
func splitNumericPrefix(s string) (n int, rest string, ok bool) {
for i, r := range s {
if r >= '0' && r <= '9' {
continue
}
ret, ok := atoi(s[:i])
if !ok {
return 0, "", false
}
return ret, s[i:], true
}
ret, ok := atoi(s)
if !ok {
return 0, "", false
}
return ret, "", true
}
const (
maxUint = ^uint(0)
maxInt = int(maxUint >> 1)
)
// atoi parses an int from a string s.
// The bool result reports whether s is a number
// representable by a value of type int.
//
// From Go's runtime/string.go.
func atoi(s string) (int, bool) {
if s == "" {
return 0, false
}
neg := false
if s[0] == '-' {
neg = true
s = s[1:]
}
un := uint(0)
for i := range len(s) {
c := s[i]
if c < '0' || c > '9' {
return 0, false
}
if un > maxUint/10 {
// overflow
return 0, false
}
un *= 10
un1 := un + uint(c) - '0'
if un1 < un {
// overflow
return 0, false
}
un = un1
}
if !neg && un > uint(maxInt) {
return 0, false
}
if neg && un > uint(maxInt)+1 {
return 0, false
}
n := int(un)
if neg {
n = -n
}
return n, true
}