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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
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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>
3 days ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 5be6ff9b62 all: remove non-applicable "linux" deps on Android
Updates #12614

Change-Id: I0e2a18eca3515d3d6206c059110556d2bbbb0c5c
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
9 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick b9adbe2002 net/{interfaces,netmon}, all: merge net/interfaces package into net/netmon
In prep for most of the package funcs in net/interfaces to become
methods in a long-lived netmon.Monitor that can cache things.  (Many
of the funcs are very heavy to call regularly, whereas the long-lived
netmon.Monitor can subscribe to things from the OS and remember
answers to questions it's asked regularly later)

Updates tailscale/corp#10910
Updates tailscale/corp#18960
Updates #7967
Updates #3299

Change-Id: Ie4e8dedb70136af2d611b990b865a822cd1797e5
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Andrew Dunham 52f16b5d10 doctor/ethtool, ipn/ipnlocal: add ethtool bugreport check
Updates #11137

Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Idbe862d80e428adb044249c47d9096b87f29d5d8
2 years ago
Andrew Lytvynov 2716250ee8
all: cleanup unused code, part 2 (#10670)
And enable U1000 check in staticcheck.

Updates #cleanup

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Andrew Dunham c98652c333 doctor/permissions: add new check to print process permissions
Since users can run tailscaled in a variety of ways (root, non-root,
non-root with process capabilities on Linux), this check will print the
current process permissions to the log to aid in debugging.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Ida93a206123f98271a0c664775d0baba98b330c7
3 years ago
Will Norris 71029cea2d all: update copyright and license headers
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>
3 years ago
Andrew Dunham b1867457a6
doctor: add package for running in-depth healthchecks; use in bugreport (#5413)
Change-Id: Iaa4e5b021a545447f319cfe8b3da2bd3e5e5782b
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
3 years ago