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>
We were previously using the netlink API to see if there are chains/rules that
already exist. This works fine in environments where there is either full
nftable support or no support at all. However, we have identified certain
environments which have partial nftable support and the only feasible way of
detecting such an environment is to try to create some of the chains that we
need.
This adds a check to create a dummy postrouting chain which is immediately
deleted. The goal of the check is to ensure we are able to use nftables and
that it won't error out later. This check is only done in the path where we
detected that the system has no preexisting nftable rules.
Updates #5621
Updates #8555
Updates #8762
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Just a refactor to consolidate the firewall detection logic in a single
package so that it can be reused in a later commit by containerboot.
Updates #9310
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Go style is for error variables to start with "err" (or "Err")
and for error types to end in "Error".
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This commit replaces the TS_DEBUG_USE_NETLINK_NFTABLES envknob with
a TS_DEBUG_FIREWALL_MODE that should be set to either 'iptables' or
'nftables' to select firewall mode manually, other wise tailscaled
will automatically choose between iptables and nftables depending on
environment and system availability.
updates: #319
Signed-off-by: KevinLiang10 <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
Exclide GOARCHs including: mips, mips64, mips64le, mipsle, riscv64.
These archs are not supported by gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/hostarch.
Fixes: #391
Signed-off-by: KevinLiang10 <kevinliang@tailscale.com>
This isn't currently supported due to missing support in upstream
dependencies, and also we don't use this package anywhere right now.
Just conditionally skip this for now.
Fixes#7268
Change-Id: Ie7389c2c0816b39b410c02a7276051a4c18b6450
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
This package is an initial implementation of something that can read
netfilter and iptables rules from the Linux kernel without needing to
shell out to an external utility; it speaks directly to the kernel using
syscalls and parses the data returned.
Currently this is read-only since it only knows how to parse a subset of
the available data.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: Iccadf5dcc081b73268d8ccf8884c24eb6a6f1ff5
