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>
This deprecates the old "DERP string" packing a DERP region ID into an
IP:port of 127.3.3.40:$REGION_ID and just uses an integer, like
PeerChange.DERPRegion does.
We still support servers sending the old form; they're converted to
the new form internally right when they're read off the network.
Updates #14636
Change-Id: I9427ec071f02a2c6d75ccb0fcbf0ecff9f19f26f
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This adds an initial and intentionally minimal configuration for
golang-ci, fixes the issues reported, and adds a GitHub Action to check
new pull requests against this linter configuration.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I8f38fbc315836a19a094d0d3e986758b9313f163
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>
Doing so makes development unpleasant, because we have to first break the
client by bumping to a version the control server rejects, then upgrade
the control server to make it accept the new version.
This strict rejection at handshake time is only necessary if we want to
blocklist some vulnerable protocol versions in the future. So, switch
to a default-permissive stance: until we have such a version that we
have to eagerly block early, we'll accept whatever version the client
presents, and leave it to the user of controlbase.Conn to make decisions
based on that version.
Noise still enforces that the client and server *agree* on what protocol
version is being used, and the control server still has the option to
finish the handshake and then hang up with an in-noise error, rather
than abort at the handshake level.
Updates #3488
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
This is so that we can plumb our client capability version through
the protocol as the Noise version. The capability version increments
more frequently than strictly required (the Noise version only needs
to change when cryptographically-significant changes are made to
the protocol, whereas the capability version also indicates changes
in non-cryptographically-significant parts of the protocol), but this
gives us a safe pre-auth way to determine if the client supports
future protocol features, while still relying on Noise's strong
assurance that the client and server have agreed on the same version.
Currently, the server executes the same protocol regardless of the
version number, and just presents the version to the caller so they
can do capability-based things in the upper RPC protocol. In future,
we may add a ratchet to disallow obsolete protocols, or vary the
Noise handshake behavior based on requested version.
Updates #3488
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
Currently `Write` returns the number of ciphertext bytes written.
According to the docs for io.Writer, Write should return the amount
of bytes consumed from the input.
```
// Write writes len(p) bytes from p to the underlying data stream.
// It returns the number of bytes written from p (0 <= n <= len(p))
// and any error encountered that caused the write to stop early.
// Write must return a non-nil error if it returns n < len(p).
// Write must not modify the slice data, even temporarily.
Write(p []byte) (n int, err error)
```
Fixes#4126
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
With this change, the client can obtain the initial handshake message
separately from the rest of the handshake, for embedding into another
protocol. This enables things like RTT reduction by stuffing the
handshake initiation message into an HTTP header.
Similarly, the server API optionally accepts a pre-read Noise initiation
message, in addition to reading the message directly off a net.Conn.
Updates #3488
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
