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tailscale/paths/paths.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 paths returns platform and user-specific default paths to
// Tailscale files and directories.
package paths
import (
"log"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"runtime"
"tailscale.com/syncs"
"tailscale.com/version/distro"
)
// AppSharedDir is a string set by the iOS or Android app on start
// containing a directory we can read/write in.
var AppSharedDir syncs.AtomicValue[string]
// DefaultTailscaledSocket returns the path to the tailscaled Unix socket
// or the empty string if there's no reasonable default.
func DefaultTailscaledSocket() string {
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
return `\\.\pipe\ProtectedPrefix\Administrators\Tailscale\tailscaled`
}
if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" {
return "/var/run/tailscaled.socket"
}
if runtime.GOOS == "plan9" {
return "/srv/tailscaled.sock"
}
switch distro.Get() {
case distro.Synology:
if distro.DSMVersion() == 6 {
return "/var/packages/Tailscale/etc/tailscaled.sock"
}
// DSM 7 (and higher? or failure to detect.)
return "/var/packages/Tailscale/var/tailscaled.sock"
case distro.Gokrazy:
return "/perm/tailscaled/tailscaled.sock"
case distro.QNAP:
return "/tmp/tailscale/tailscaled.sock"
}
if fi, err := os.Stat("/var/run"); err == nil && fi.IsDir() {
return "/var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock"
}
return "tailscaled.sock"
}
// Overridden in init by OS-specific files.
var (
stateFileFunc func() string
// ensureStateDirPerms applies a restrictive ACL/chmod
// to the provided directory.
ensureStateDirPerms = func(string) error { return nil }
)
// DefaultTailscaledStateFile returns the default path to the
// tailscaled state file, or the empty string if there's no reasonable
// default value.
func DefaultTailscaledStateFile() string {
if f := stateFileFunc; f != nil {
return f()
}
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
return filepath.Join(os.Getenv("ProgramData"), "Tailscale", "server-state.conf")
}
return ""
}
// DefaultTailscaledStateDir returns the default state directory
// to use for tailscaled, for use when the user provided neither
// a state directory or state file path to use.
//
// It returns the empty string if there's no reasonable default.
func DefaultTailscaledStateDir() string {
if runtime.GOOS == "plan9" {
home, err := os.UserHomeDir()
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("failed to get home directory: %v", err)
}
return filepath.Join(home, "tailscale-state")
}
return filepath.Dir(DefaultTailscaledStateFile())
}
// MakeAutomaticStateDir reports whether the platform
// automatically creates the state directory for tailscaled
// when it's absent.
func MakeAutomaticStateDir() bool {
switch runtime.GOOS {
case "plan9":
return true
case "linux":
if distro.Get() == distro.JetKVM {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// MkStateDir ensures that dirPath, the daemon's configuration directory
// containing machine keys etc, both exists and has the correct permissions.
// We want it to only be accessible to the user the daemon is running under.
func MkStateDir(dirPath string) error {
if err := os.MkdirAll(dirPath, 0700); err != nil {
return err
}
return ensureStateDirPerms(dirPath)
}
// LegacyStateFilePath returns the legacy path to the state file when
// it was stored under the current user's %LocalAppData%.
//
// It is only called on Windows.
func LegacyStateFilePath() string {
if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
return filepath.Join(os.Getenv("LocalAppData"), "Tailscale", "server-state.conf")
}
return ""
}