tailscale / tailscale
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Go source for Tailscale's tailscaled daemon and tailscale CLI, which build private WireGuard mesh networks between devices.
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Use this if you want to read, build, or package the open-source core of Tailscale rather than the hosted service. It runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and partially on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and mobile clients share its code. The GUI wrappers for some platforms are not open source.
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LanguageGo
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Created2020-01-31 (6y ago)
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- GitHub: github.com/tailscale/tailscale
- Homepage: https://tailscale.com
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README excerpt
# Tailscale https://tailscale.com Private WireGuard® networks made easy ## Overview This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code. Notably, it includes the `tailscaled` daemon and the `tailscale` CLI tool. The `tailscaled` daemon runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and to varying degrees on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code. Other Tailscale repos of note: * the Android app is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android * the Synology package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology * the QNAP package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg * the Chocolatey packaging is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-chocolatey For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/. ## Using We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com. ## Other clients The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source. ## Building We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.27. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.) [code] If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use `build_dist.sh` instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries: [code] If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of `build_dist.sh`, please do the equivalent of what it does in your distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information. ## Bugs Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker. ## Contributing PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs. We require Developer Certificate of Origin `Signed-off-by` lines in commits. See commit-messages.md (or skim `git log`) for our commit message style. ## About Us Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see: * https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/graphs/contributors * https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android/graphs/contributors ## Legal WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.
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