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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
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
Joe Tsai a2dc517d7d
all: specify explicit JSON format for time.Duration (#17307)
The default representation of time.Duration has different
JSON representation between v1 and v2.

Apply an explicit format flag that uses the v1 representation
so that this behavior does not change if serialized with v2.

Updates tailscale/corp#791

Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
4 months ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 72bc7334fb net/speedtest: mark flaky test, and skip it by default as it's slow
Updates #17338

Change-Id: I1f3dbc154ba274f615cc77d2aa76f6ff9d40137c
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
4 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
James Tucker f7cb535693 net/speedtest: retune to meet iperf on localhost in a VM
- removed some in-flow time calls
- increase buffer size to 2MB to overcome syscall cost
- move relative time computation from record to report time

Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
3 years ago
nicksherron f01ff18b6f all: fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: nicksherron <nsherron90@gmail.com>
4 years ago
Aaditya Chaudhary 4f89fe17a2
Implemented Commandline Download Speedtest (#2064)
Added the net/speedtest package that contains code for starting up a
speedtest server and a client. The speedtest command for starting a
client takes in a duration for the speedtest as well as the host and
port of the speedtest server to connect to. The speedtest command for
starting a server takes in a host:port pair to listen on.

Signed-off-by: Aaditya Chaudhary <32117362+AadityaChaudhary@users.noreply.github.com>
5 years ago