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tailscale/util/winutil/policy/policy_windows.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
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>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Package policy contains higher-level abstractions for accessing Windows enterprise policies.
package policy
import (
"time"
"tailscale.com/util/winutil"
)
// PreferenceOptionPolicy is a policy that governs whether a boolean variable
// is forcibly assigned an administrator-defined value, or allowed to receive
// a user-defined value.
type PreferenceOptionPolicy int
const (
showChoiceByPolicy PreferenceOptionPolicy = iota
neverByPolicy
alwaysByPolicy
)
// Show returns if the UI option that controls the choice administered by this
// policy should be shown. Currently this is true if and only if the policy is
// showChoiceByPolicy.
func (p PreferenceOptionPolicy) Show() bool {
return p == showChoiceByPolicy
}
// ShouldEnable checks if the choice administered by this policy should be
// enabled. If the administrator has chosen a setting, the administrator's
// setting is returned, otherwise userChoice is returned.
func (p PreferenceOptionPolicy) ShouldEnable(userChoice bool) bool {
switch p {
case neverByPolicy:
return false
case alwaysByPolicy:
return true
default:
return userChoice
}
}
// GetPreferenceOptionPolicy loads a policy from the registry that can be
// managed by an enterprise policy management system and allows administrative
// overrides of users' choices in a way that we do not want tailcontrol to have
// the authority to set. It describes user-decides/always/never options, where
// "always" and "never" remove the user's ability to make a selection. If not
// present or set to a different value, "user-decides" is the default.
func GetPreferenceOptionPolicy(name string) PreferenceOptionPolicy {
opt, err := winutil.GetPolicyString(name)
if opt == "" || err != nil {
return showChoiceByPolicy
}
switch opt {
case "always":
return alwaysByPolicy
case "never":
return neverByPolicy
default:
return showChoiceByPolicy
}
}
// VisibilityPolicy is a policy that controls whether or not a particular
// component of a user interface is to be shown.
type VisibilityPolicy byte
const (
visibleByPolicy VisibilityPolicy = 'v'
hiddenByPolicy VisibilityPolicy = 'h'
)
// Show reports whether the UI option administered by this policy should be shown.
// Currently this is true if and only if the policy is visibleByPolicy.
func (p VisibilityPolicy) Show() bool {
return p == visibleByPolicy
}
// GetVisibilityPolicy loads a policy from the registry that can be managed
// by an enterprise policy management system and describes show/hide decisions
// for UI elements. The registry value should be a string set to "show" (return
// true) or "hide" (return true). If not present or set to a different value,
// "show" (return false) is the default.
func GetVisibilityPolicy(name string) VisibilityPolicy {
opt, err := winutil.GetPolicyString(name)
if opt == "" || err != nil {
return visibleByPolicy
}
switch opt {
case "hide":
return hiddenByPolicy
default:
return visibleByPolicy
}
}
// GetDurationPolicy loads a policy from the registry that can be managed
// by an enterprise policy management system and describes a duration for some
// action. The registry value should be a string that time.ParseDuration
// understands. If the registry value is "" or can not be processed,
// defaultValue is returned instead.
func GetDurationPolicy(name string, defaultValue time.Duration) time.Duration {
opt, err := winutil.GetPolicyString(name)
if opt == "" || err != nil {
return defaultValue
}
v, err := time.ParseDuration(opt)
if err != nil || v < 0 {
return defaultValue
}
return v
}
// SelectControlURL returns the ControlURL to use based on a value in
// the registry (LoginURL) and the one on disk (in the GUI's
// prefs.conf). If both are empty, it returns a default value. (It
// always return a non-empty value)
//
// See https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/2798 for some background.
func SelectControlURL(reg, disk string) string {
const def = "https://controlplane.tailscale.com"
// Prior to Dec 2020's commit 739b02e6, the installer
// wrote a LoginURL value of https://login.tailscale.com to the registry.
const oldRegDef = "https://login.tailscale.com"
// If they have an explicit value in the registry, use it,
// unless it's an old default value from an old installer.
// Then we have to see which is better.
if reg != "" {
if reg != oldRegDef {
// Something explicit in the registry that we didn't
// set ourselves by the installer.
return reg
}
if disk == "" {
// Something in the registry is better than nothing on disk.
return reg
}
if disk != def && disk != oldRegDef {
// The value in the registry is the old
// default (login.tailscale.com) but the value
// on disk is neither our old nor new default
// value, so it must be some custom thing that
// the user cares about. Prefer the disk value.
return disk
}
}
if disk != "" {
return disk
}
return def
}