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 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>
That way humans don't have to remember which is correct.
RELNOTE=--auth-key is the new --authkey, but --authkey still works
Updates tailscale/corp#3486
Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>
The flags were --no-blah for a brief time, then we switched them to
--blah=true/false with a default of true, but didn't fix the boolean
inversions in the code. So up was down, true was false, etc.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
On startup, and when switching into =off and =nodivert, we were
deleting netfilter rules even if we weren't the ones that added them.
In order to avoid interfering with rules added by the sysadmin, we have
to be sure to delete rules only in the case that we added them in the
first place.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
Let's actually list the file we checked
(/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward). That gives the admin something
specific to look for when they get this message.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
We would print a message about "nothing more to do", which some people
thought was an error or warning. Let's only print a message after
authenticating if we previously asked for interaction, and let's
shorten that message to just "Success," which is what it means.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
These will be used for dynamically changing the identity of a node, so
its ACL rights can be different from your own.
Note: Not all implemented yet on the server side, but we need this so
we can request the tagged rights in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
This sets a default packet filter that blocks all incoming requests,
giving end users more control over who can get into their machine, even
if the admin hasn't set any central ACLs.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@tailscale.com>
Two commands for now, `up` and `netcheck`. The commands and the flags they take
will change a bunch in the future, but this is good enough to launch on parity
with relaynode.
Signed-Off-By: David Anderson <dave@natulte.net>
* adds new packet "netcheck" to do the checking of UDP, IPv6, and
nearest DERP server, and the Report type for all that (and more
in the future, probably pulling in danderson's natprobe)
* new tailcfg.NetInfo type
* cmd/tailscale netcheck subcommand (tentative name, likely to
change/move) to print out the netcheck.Report.
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Prefs has become a heavy object with non-memcpy copy
semantics. We should not pass such a thing by value.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@natulte.net>
The autoselection should pick sensible paths for all of:
- Windows (LocalAppData)
- Mac (Library/Caches)
- Unix user (XDG_CACHE_DIR)
- Linux systemd service (CACHE_DIRECTORY)
As a last resort, if cache dir lookup fails, plops sufficiently
uniquely named files into the current working directory.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@natulte.net>
We can't rely on a frontend to provide a control
server URL, so this naturally belongs in server-persisted
state.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@natulte.net>
On unix, we want to provide a full path to the desired unix socket.
On windows, currently we want to provide a TCP port, but someday
we'll also provide a "path-ish" object for a named pipe.
For now, simplify the API down to exactly a path and a TCP port.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@natulte.net>
With this change, tailscaled can be restarted and reconnect
without interaction from `tailscale`, and `tailscale` is merely
there to provide login assistance and adjust preferences.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <dave@natulte.net>
Will Norris