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>
Also capitalises the start of all ShortHelp, allows subcommands to be hidden
with a "HIDDEN: " prefix in their ShortHelp, and adds a TS_DUMP_HELP envknob
to look at all --help messages together.
Fixes#11664
Signed-off-by: Paul Scott <paul@tailscale.com>
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
The check was happening too early and in the case of error would wait 5
s and then error out. This makes it so that it does validations before
the SSH check.
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
This makes it so that the user is notified that the action
they are about to take may result in them getting disconnected from
the machine. It then waits for 5s for the user to maybe Ctrl+C out of
it.
It also introduces a `--accept-risk=lose-ssh` flag for automation, which
allows the caller to pre-acknowledge the risk.
The two actions that cause this are:
- updating `--ssh` from `true` to `false`
- running `tailscale down`
Updates #3802
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Remove all global variables, and clean up tsnet and cmd/tailscale's usage.
This is in prep for using this package for the web API too (it has the
best package name).
RELNOTE=tailscale.com/client/tailscale package refactored w/ LocalClient type
Change-Id: Iba9f162fff0c520a09d1d4bd8862f5c5acc9d7cd
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
So js/wasm can override where those go, without implementing
an *os.File pipe pair, etc.
Updates #3157
Change-Id: I14ba954d9f2349ff15b58796d95ecb1367e8ba3a
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This adds a new ipn.MaskedPrefs embedding a ipn.Prefs, along with a
bunch of "has bits", kept in sync with tests & reflect.
Then it adds a Prefs.ApplyEdits(MaskedPrefs) method.
Then the ipn.Backend interface loses its weirdo SetWantRunning(bool)
method (that I added in 483141094c for "tailscale down")
and replaces it with EditPrefs (alongside the existing SetPrefs for now).
Then updates 'tailscale down' to use EditPrefs instead of SetWantRunning.
In the future, we can use this to do more interesting things with the
CLI, reconfiguring only certain properties without the reset-the-world
"tailscale up".
Updates #1436
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This partially (but not yet fully) migrates Windows to tailscaled's
StateStore storage system.
This adds a new bool Pref, ForceDaemon, defined as:
// ForceDaemon specifies whether a platform that normally
// operates in "client mode" (that is, requires an active user
// logged in with the GUI app running) should keep running after the
// GUI ends and/or the user logs out.
//
// The only current applicable platform is Windows. This
// forced Windows to go into "server mode" where Tailscale is
// running even with no users logged in. This might also be
// used for macOS in the future. This setting has no effect
// for Linux/etc, which always operate in daemon mode.
Then, when ForceDaemon becomes true, we now write use the StateStore
to track which user started it in server mode, and store their prefs
under that key.
The ipnserver validates the connections/identities and informs that
LocalBackend which userid is currently in charge.
The GUI can then enable/disable server mode at runtime, without using
the CLI.
But the "tailscale up" CLI was also fixed, so Windows users can use
authkeys or ACL tags, etc.
Updates #275
Will Norris