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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>
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Updates #10261
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
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No longer using this! Readonly state fully managed via auth endpoint.
Also getting rid of old Legacy server mode.
A #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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Avoids the need to pipe a web client dev flag through the tailscaled
command.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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Adds a new Mode to the web server, indicating the specific
scenario the constructed server is intended to be run in. Also
starts filling this from the cli/web and ipn/ipnlocal callers.
From cli/web this gets filled conditionally based on whether the
preview web client node cap is set. If not set, the existing
"legacy" client is served. If set, both a login/lobby and full
management client are started (in "login" and "manage" modes
respectively).
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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Allows for serving the web interface from tailscaled, with the
ability to start and stop the server via localapi endpoints
(/web/start and /web/stop).
This will be used to run the new full management web client,
which will only be accessible over Tailscale (with an extra auth
check step over noise) from the daemon. This switch also allows
us to run the web interface as a long-lived service in environments
where the CLI version is restricted to CGI, allowing us to manage
certain auth state in memory.
ipn/ipnlocal/web is stubbed out in ipn/ipnlocal/web_stub for
ios builds to satisfy ios restriction from adding "text/template"
and "html/template" dependencies.
Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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Updates tailscale/corp#14335
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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Adds a cached self node to the web client Server struct, which will
be used from the web client api to verify that request came from the
node's own machine (i.e. came from the web client frontend). We'll
be using when we switch the web client api over to acting as a proxy
to the localapi, to protect against DNS rebinding attacks.
Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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Indicate to the web client when it is running in CGI mode, and if it is
then cache the csrf key between requests.
Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
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Serving the web client on the tailscale interface, while useful for
remote management, is also inherently risky if ACLs are not configured
appropriately. Switch the example to listen only on localhost, which is
a much safer default. This is still a valuable example, since it still
demonstrates how to have a web client connected to a tsnet instance.
Updates #13775
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
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Currently just serving a "Hello world" page when running the web
cli in --dev mode.
Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Co-authored-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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Updates tailscale/corp#13775
Co-authored-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Sonia Appasamy <sonia@tailscale.com>
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