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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>
1 week ago
Andrew Dunham 717d589149 metrics: revert changes to MultiLabelMap's String method
This breaks its ability to be used as an expvar and is blocking a trunkd
deploy. Revert for now, and add a test to ensure that we don't break it
in a future change.

Updates #13550

Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I1f1221c257c1de47b4bff0597c12f8530736116d
1 year ago
Kristoffer Dalby 0e0e53d3b3 util/usermetrics: make usermetrics non-global
this commit changes usermetrics to be non-global, this is a building
block for correct metrics if a go process runs multiple tsnets or
in tests.

Updates #13420
Updates tailscale/corp#22075

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@tailscale.com>
1 year ago
Kristoffer Dalby a2c42d3cd4 usermetric: add initial user-facing metrics
This commit adds a new usermetric package and wires
up metrics across the tailscale client.

Updates tailscale/corp#22075

Co-authored-by: Anton Tolchanov <anton@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Dalby <kristoffer@tailscale.com>
1 year ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 7c1d6e35a5 all: use Go 1.22 range-over-int
Updates #11058

Change-Id: I35e7ef9b90e83cac04ca93fd964ad00ed5b48430
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 9699bb0a20 metrics: fix outdated docs on MultiLabelMap
And make NewMultiLabelMap panic earlier (at construction time)
if the comparable struct type T violates the documented rules,
rather than panicking at Add time.

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ib1a03babdd501b8d699c4f18b1097a56c916c6d5
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick 55baf9474f metrics, tsweb/varz: add multi-label map metrics
Updates tailscale/corp#18640

Change-Id: Ia9ae25956038e9d3266ea165537ac6f02485b74c
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2 years ago