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>
Key changes:
- No mutex for every udp package: replace syncs.Map with regular map for udpTargetConns
- Use socksAddr as map key for better type safety
- Add test for multi udp target
Updates #7581
Change-Id: Ic3d384a9eab62dcbf267d7d6d268bf242cc8ed3c
Signed-off-by: VimT <me@vimt.me>
This commit addresses an issue with the SOCKS5 UDP relay functionality
when using the --tun=userspace-networking option. Previously, UDP packets
were not being correctly routed into the Tailscale network in this mode.
Key changes:
- Replace single UDP connection with a map of connections per target
- Use c.srv.dial for creating connections to ensure proper routing
Updates #7581
Change-Id: Iaaa66f9de6a3713218014cf3f498003a7cac9832
Signed-off-by: VimT <me@vimt.me>
Conforms to RFC 1929.
To support Java HTTP clients via libtailscale, who offer no other
reliable hooks into their sockets.
Signed-off-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@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>
Customer reported an issue where the connections were not closing, and
would instead just stay open. This commit makes it so that we close out
the connection regardless of what error we see. I've verified locally
that it fixes the issue, we should add a test for this.
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
And add a --socks5-server flag.
And fix a race in SOCKS5 replies where the response header was written
concurrently with the copy from the backend.
Co-authored with Naman Sood.
Updates #707
Updates #504
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
