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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
Alex Chan 378ee20b9a cmd/tailscale/cli: stabilise the output of tailscale lock status --json
This patch stabilises the JSON output, and improves it in the following
ways:

* The AUM hash in Head uses the base32-encoded form of an AUM hash,
  consistent with how it's presented elsewhere
* TrustedKeys are the same format as the keys as `tailnet lock log --json`
* SigKind, Pubkey and KeyID are all presented consistently with other
  JSON output in NodeKeySignature
* FilteredPeers don't have a NodeKeySignature, because it will always
  be empty

For reference, here's the JSON output from the CLI prior to this change:

```json
{
  "Enabled": true,
  "Head": [
    196,
    69,
    63,
    243,
    213,
    133,
    123,
    46,
    183,
    203,
    143,
    34,
    184,
    85,
    80,
    1,
    221,
    92,
    49,
    213,
    93,
    106,
    5,
    206,
    176,
    250,
    58,
    165,
    155,
    136,
    11,
    13
  ],
  "PublicKey": "nlpub:0f99af5c02216193963ce9304bb4ca418846eddebe237f37a6de1c59097ed0b8",
  "NodeKey": "nodekey:8abfe98b38151748919f6e346ad16436201c3ecd453b01e9d6d3a38e1826000d",
  "NodeKeySigned": true,
  "NodeKeySignature": {
    "SigKind": 1,
    "Pubkey": "bnCKv+mLOBUXSJGfbjRq0WQ2IBw+zUU7AenW06OOGCYADQ==",
    "KeyID": "D5mvXAIhYZOWPOkwS7TKQYhG7d6+I383pt4cWQl+0Lg=",
    "Signature": "4DPW4v6MyLLwQ8AMDm27BVDGABjeC9gg1EfqRdKgzVXi/mJDwY9PTAoX0+0WTRs5SUksWjY0u1CLxq5xgjFGBA==",
    "Nested": null,
    "WrappingPubkey": "D5mvXAIhYZOWPOkwS7TKQYhG7d6+I383pt4cWQl+0Lg="
  },
  "TrustedKeys": [
    {
      "Key": "nlpub:0f99af5c02216193963ce9304bb4ca418846eddebe237f37a6de1c59097ed0b8",
      "Metadata": null,
      "Votes": 1
    },
    {
      "Key": "nlpub:de2254c040e728140d92bc967d51284e9daea103a28a97a215694c5bda2128b8",
      "Metadata": null,
      "Votes": 1
    }
  ],
  "VisiblePeers": [
    {
      "Name": "signing2.taila62b.unknown.c.ts.net.",
      "ID": 7525920332164264,
      "StableID": "nRX6TbAWm121DEVEL",
      "TailscaleIPs": [
        "100.110.67.20",
        "fd7a:115c:a1e0::9c01:4314"
      ],
      "NodeKey": "nodekey:10bf4a5c168051d700a29123cd81568377849da458abef4b328794ca9cae4313",
      "NodeKeySignature": {
        "SigKind": 1,
        "Pubkey": "bnAQv0pcFoBR1wCikSPNgVaDd4SdpFir70syh5TKnK5DEw==",
        "KeyID": "D5mvXAIhYZOWPOkwS7TKQYhG7d6+I383pt4cWQl+0Lg=",
        "Signature": "h9fhwHiNdkTqOGVQNdW6AVFoio6MFaFobPiK9ydywgmtYxcExJ38b76Tabdc56aNLxf8IfCaRw2VYPcQG2J/AA==",
        "Nested": null,
        "WrappingPubkey": "3iJUwEDnKBQNkryWfVEoTp2uoQOiipeiFWlMW9ohKLg="
      }
    }
  ],
  "FilteredPeers": [
    {
      "Name": "node3.taila62b.unknown.c.ts.net.",
      "ID": 5200614049042386,
      "StableID": "n3jAr7KNch11DEVEL",
      "TailscaleIPs": [
        "100.95.29.124",
        "fd7a:115c:a1e0::f901:1d7c"
      ],
      "NodeKey": "nodekey:454d2c8602c10574c5ec3a6790f159714802012b7b8bb8d2ab47d637f9df1d7b",
      "NodeKeySignature": {
        "SigKind": 0,
        "Pubkey": null,
        "KeyID": null,
        "Signature": null,
        "Nested": null,
        "WrappingPubkey": null
      }
    }
  ],
  "StateID": 16885615198276932820
}
```

Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/22355
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/17619

Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>

Change-Id: I65b58ff4520033e6b70fc3b1ba7fc91c1f70a960
2025-12-09 09:40:06 +00:00
Alex Chan 139c395d7d cmd/tailscale/cli: stabilise the output of tailscale lock log --json
This patch changes the behaviour of `tailscale lock log --json` to make
it more useful for users. It also introduces versioning of our JSON output.

## Changes to `tailscale lock log --json`

Previously this command would print the hash and base64-encoded bytes of
each AUM, and users would need their own CBOR decoder to interpret it in
a useful way:

```json
[
  {
    "Hash": [
      80,
      136,
      151,
      …
    ],
    "Change": "checkpoint",
    "Raw": "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"
  }
]
```

Now we print the AUM in an expanded form that can be easily read by scripts,
although we include the raw bytes for verification and auditing.

```json
{
  "SchemaVersion": "1",
  "Messages": [
    {
      "Hash": "KCEJPRKNSXJG2TPH3EHQRLJNLIIK2DV53FUNPADWA7BZJWBDRXZQ",
      "AUM": {
        "MessageKind": "checkpoint",
        "PrevAUMHash": null,
        "Key": null,
        "KeyID": null,
        "State": {
          …
        },
        "Votes": null,
        "Meta": null,
        "Signatures": [
          {
            "KeyID": "tlpub:e44874d1ea48ecf3d6dac8ca09cfe70dc958ad83b656393432016c3ed229c8d6",
            "Signature": "8yAKKHPpuOWsuTwfzgeAAPRXZIuCiavS5fjxeiCR2JTlYaU23NxNChezg7tVlEXdH+z151u9na/PQknxsSBwBQ=="
          }
        ]
      },
      "Raw": "pAEFAvYFpQH2AopYIAkPN-8V3cJpkoC5ZY2-RI2Bcg2q5G7tRAQQd67W3YpnWCDPOo4KGeQBd8hdGsjoEQpSXyiPdlm-NXAlJ5dS1qEbFlggylNJDQM5ZQ2ULNsXxg2ZBFkPl_D93I1M56_rowU-UIlYIPZ_SxT9EA2Idy9kaCbsFzjX_s3Ms7584wWGbWd_f_QAWCBHYZzYiAPpQ-NXN-1Wn2fopQYk4yl7kNQcMXUKNAdt1lggcfjcuVACOH0J9pRNvYZQFOkbiBmLOW1hPKJsbC1D1GdYIKrJ38XMgpVMuTuBxM4YwoLmrK_RgXQw1uVEL3cywl3QWCA0FilVVv8uys8BNhS62cfNvCew1Pw5wIgSe3Prv8d8pFggQrwIt6ldYtyFPQcC5V18qrCnt7VpThACaz5RYzpx7RNYIKskOA7UoNiVtMkOrV2QoXv6EvDpbO26a01lVeh8UCeEA4KjAQECAQNYIORIdNHqSOzz1trIygnP5w3JWK2DtlY5NDIBbD7SKcjWowEBAgEDWCD27LpxiZNiA19k0QZhOWmJRvBdK2mz-dHu7rf0iGTPFwQb69Gt42fKNn0FGwRUiav_k6dDF4GiAVgg5Eh00epI7PPW2sjKCc_nDclYrYO2Vjk0MgFsPtIpyNYCWEDzIAooc-m45ay5PB_OB4AA9Fdki4KJq9Ll-PF6IJHYlOVhpTbc3E0KF7ODu1WURd0f7PXnW72dr89CSfGxIHAF"
    }
  ]
}
```

This output was previously marked as unstable, and it wasn't very useful,
so changing it should be fine.

## Versioning our JSON output

This patch introduces a way to version our JSON output on the CLI, so we
can make backwards-incompatible changes in future without breaking existing
scripts or integrations.

You can run this command in two ways:

```
tailscale lock log --json
tailscale lock log --json=1
```

Passing an explicit version number allows you to pick a specific JSON schema.
If we ever want to change the schema, we increment the version number and
users must opt-in to the new output.

A bare `--json` flag will always return schema version 1, for compatibility
with existing scripts.

Updates https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/17613
Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/23258

Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>

Change-Id: I897f78521cc1a81651f5476228c0882d7b723606
2025-11-17 09:44:52 +00:00