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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>
4 days ago
Naman Sood f157f3288d
cmd/tailscale/cli,ipn/conffile: add declarative config mode for Services (#17435)
This commit adds the subcommands `get-config` and `set-config` to Serve,
which can be used to read the current Tailscale Services configuration
in a standard syntax and provide a configuration to declaratively apply
with that same syntax.

Both commands must be provided with either `--service=svc:service` for
one service, or `--all` for all services. When writing a config,
`--set-config --all` will overwrite all existing Services configuration,
and `--set-config --service=svc:service` will overwrite all
configuration for that particular Service. Incremental changes are not
supported.

Fixes tailscale/corp#30983.

cmd/tailscale/cli: hide serve "get-config"/"set-config" commands for now

tailscale/corp#33152 tracks unhiding them when docs exist.

Signed-off-by: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
4 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick f7afb9b6ca feature/featuretags, ipn/conffile: make HuJSON support in config files optional
Saves 33 KB.

Updates #12614

Change-Id: Ie701c230e0765281f409f29ed263910b9be9cc77
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
4 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 508980603b ipn/conffile: don't depend on hujson on iOS/Android
Fixes #13772

Change-Id: I3ae03a5ee48c801f2e5ea12d1e54681df25d4604
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
1 year ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 1ea100e2e5 cmd/tailscaled, ipn/conffile: support ec2 user-data config file
Updates #1412
Updates #1866

Change-Id: I4d08fb233b80c2078b3b28ffc18559baabb4a081
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 1fc3573446 ipn/{conffile,ipnlocal}: start booting tailscaled from a config file w/ auth key
Updates #1412

Change-Id: Icd880035a31df59797b8379f4af19da5c4c453e2
Co-authored-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 18bd98d35b cmd/tailscaled,*: add start of configuration file support
Updates #1412

Co-authored-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I38d559c1784d09fc804f521986c9b4b548718f7d
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago