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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
Marc Paquette 36ea792f06 Fix various linting, vet & static check issues
Fixes #14492

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Developer Certificate of Origin
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
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(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
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(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
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    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
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(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
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    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
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Change-Id: I6dc1068d34bbfa7477e7b7a56a4325b3868c92e1
Signed-off-by: Marc Paquette <marcphilippaquette@gmail.com>
1 year ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 1005cbc1e4 tailscaleroot: panic if tailscale_go build tag but Go toolchain mismatch
Fixes #13527

Change-Id: I05921969a84a303b60d1b3b9227aff9865662831
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
1 year ago
David Anderson da75e49223 version: return correct Meta.MajorMinorPatch in non-dev builds
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
3 years ago
David Anderson 02a2dcfc86 go.toolchain.rev: use new statically built toolchain
Also removes the toolchain builds from flake.nix. For now the flake
build uses upstream Go 1.20, a followup change will switch it back to
our custom toolchain.

Updates tailscale/corp#9005

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@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
David Anderson 7bfb9999ee cmd/printdep: support printing the toolchain SRI hash.
Updates #6845.

Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
3 years ago
Maisem Ali 88133c361e Docker: add ALPINE.txt to manage alpine versions
The goal here is to

1. make it so that the number doesn't diverge between the various places
   we had it defined
2. not define the number in corp, only in oss

Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick ebdd25920e go.toolchain.rev: add Go toolchain rev, tool to print it out
Updates tailscale/corp#3385

Change-Id: Ia0e285a0ae836744539c97ff6eff207588159688
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
4 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 31e4f60047 version: embed VERSION.txt in unstamped version
Temporary measure until we switch to Go 1.18.

    $ go run ./cmd/tailscale version
    1.17.0-date.20211022
      go version: go1.17

Updates #81

Change-Id: Ic82ebffa5f46789089e5fb9810b3f29e36a47f1a
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
4 years ago