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
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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>
This patch contains the following cleanups:
1. Simplify `ffcli.Command` definitions;
2. Word-wrap help text, consistent with other commands;
3. `tailscale dns --help` usage makes subcommand usage more obvious;
4. `tailscale dns query --help` describes DNS record types.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Simon Law <sfllaw@tailscale.com>
3dabea0fc2 added some docs with inconsistent usage docs.
This fixes them, and adds a test.
It also adds some other tests and fixes other verb tense
inconsistencies.
Updates tailscale/corp#25278
Change-Id: I94c2a8940791bddd7c35c1c3d5fb791a317370c2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Updates tailscale/tailscale#13326
Adds a CLI subcommand to perform DNS queries using the internal DNS forwarder and observe its internals (namely, which upstream resolvers are being used).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
Updates tailscale/tailscale#13326
This PR begins implementing a `tailscale dns` command group in the Tailscale CLI. It provides an initial implementation of `tailscale dns status` which dumps the state of the internal DNS forwarder.
Two new endpoints were added in LocalAPI to support the CLI functionality:
- `/netmap`: dumps a copy of the last received network map (because the CLI shouldn't have to listen to the ipn bus for a copy)
- `/dns-osconfig`: dumps the OS DNS configuration (this will be very handy for the UI clients as well, as they currently do not display this information)
My plan is to implement other subcommands mentioned in tailscale/tailscale#13326, such as `query`, in later PRs.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
Will Norris