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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>
5 days ago
Alex Chan c2e474e729 all: rename variables with lowercase-l/uppercase-I
See http://go/no-ell

Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: I8c976b51ce7a60f06315048b1920516129cc1d5d
2 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 259bab9bff scripts/check_license_headers.sh: delete, rewrite as a Go test
Updates tailscale/corp#29650

Change-Id: Iad4e4ccd9d68ebb1d1a12f335cc5295d0bd05b60
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
8 months 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
Josh Soref d4811f11a0 all: fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <2119212+jsoref@users.noreply.github.com>
3 years ago
Emmanuel T Odeke f981b1d9da all: fix resource leaks with missing .Close() calls
Fixes #5706

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel T Odeke <emmanuel@orijtech.com>
3 years ago
Andrew Dunham e1738ea78e
chirp: add a 10s timeout when communicating with BIRD (#5444)
Prior to this change, if BIRD stops responding wgengine.watchdogEngine
will crash tailscaled.

This happens because in wgengine.userspaceEngine, we end up blocking
forever trying to write a request to or read a response from BIRD with
wgLock held, and then future watchdog'd calls will block on acquiring
that mutex until the watchdog kills the process. With the timeout, we at
least get the chance to print an error message and decide whether we
want to crash or not.

Updates tailscale/coral#72

Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@tailscale.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@tailscale.com>
3 years ago
Josh Bleecher Snyder 0868329936 all: use any instead of interface{}
My favorite part of generics.

Signed-off-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josh@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
Maisem Ali e64cecac8e chirp: remove regex dependency
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
Maisem Ali e3dccfd7ff chirp: handle multiline responses from BIRD
Also add tests to verify the parsing logic.

Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
Maisem Ali fd4838dc57 wgengine/userspace: add support to automatically enable/disable the tailscale
protocol in BIRD, when the node is a primary subnet router as determined
by control.

Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
4 years ago