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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
Joe Tsai c6fadd6d71
all: implement AppendText alongside MarshalText (#9207)
This eventually allows encoding packages that may respect
the proposed encoding.TextAppender interface.
The performance gains from this is between 10-30%.

Updates tailscale/corp#14379

Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick cf8dd7aa09 all: use Go 1.20's bytes.Clone
Updates #7123
Updates #6257 (more to do in other repos)

Change-Id: I073e2a6d81a5d7fbecc29caddb7e057ff65239d0
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
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
Brad Fitzpatrick 2024008667 types/key: add MachinePrecomputedSharedKey.Open
Follow-up to cfdb862673

Updates tailscale/corp#1709

Change-Id: I7af931a2cb55f9006e1029381663ac21d1794242
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick cfdb862673 types/key: add naclbox shared key wrapper type + Seal method
So the control plane can stop doing precomputations on each naclbox
message.

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
David Anderson 293431aaea control/noise: use key.Machine{Public,Private} as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
Dave Anderson 980acc38ba
types/key: add a special key with custom serialization for control private keys (#2792)
* Revert "Revert "types/key: add MachinePrivate and MachinePublic.""

This reverts commit 61c3b98a24.

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>

* types/key: add ControlPrivate, with custom serialization.

ControlPrivate is just a MachinePrivate that serializes differently
in JSON, to be compatible with how the Tailscale control plane
historically serialized its private key.

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
David Anderson 61c3b98a24 Revert "types/key: add MachinePrivate and MachinePublic."
Broke the tailscale control plane due to surprise different serialization.

This reverts commit 4fdb88efe1.
4 years ago
David Anderson 4fdb88efe1 types/key: add MachinePrivate and MachinePublic.
Plumb throughout the codebase as a replacement for the mixed use of
tailcfg.MachineKey and wgkey.Private/Public.

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
4 years ago