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>
Previously, we hashed the question and combined it with the original
txid which was useful when concurrent queries were multiplexed on a
single local source port. We encountered some situations where the DNS
server canonicalizes the question in the response (uppercase converted
to lowercase in this case), which resulted in responses that we couldn't
match to the original request due to hash mismatches. This includes a
new test to cover that situation.
Fixes#2597
Signed-off-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
This change (subject to some limitations) looks for the EDNS OPT record
in queries and responses, clamping the size field to fit within our DNS
receive buffer. If the size field is smaller than the DNS receive buffer
then it is left unchanged.
I think we will eventually need to transition to fully processing the
DNS queries to handle all situations, but this should cover the most
common case.
Mostly fixes#2066
Signed-off-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
This raises the maximum DNS response message size from 512 to 4095. This
should be large enough for almost all situations that do not need TCP.
We still do not recognize EDNS, so we will still forward requests that
claim support for a larger response size than 4095 (that will be solved
later). For now, when a response comes back that is too large to fit in
our receive buffer, we now set the truncation flag in the DNS header,
which is an improvement from before but will prompt attempts to use TCP
which isn't supported yet.
On Windows, WSARecvFrom into a buffer that's too small returns an error
in addition to the data. On other OSes, the extra data is silently
discarded. In this case, we prefer the latter so need to catch the error
on Windows.
Partially addresses #1123
Signed-off-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
