reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old

reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old files from .reuse/dep5
+ add info to .github/dependabot.yml
+ make scripts/copyright.pl warn on non-matching patterns

Closes #13245

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badwords: use hostname, not host name

and username, filename - consistently. Fixed the patterns in
badwords.txt to catch these.

Closes #12888

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want to avoid. In the
name of consistency and better documentation.

Closes #12764

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FEATURES: update the URL phrasing

The URL is length limited since a while back so "no limit" simply is not
true anymore. Mention the URL RFC standard used instead.

Closes #12383

nss: remove support for this TLS library

Closes #11459

docs: use a space after RFC when spelling out RFC numbers

Closes #11382

docs: spellfixes

Pointed by the new CI job

FEATURES: remove yassl as TLS library for NTLM

yassl was added in commit 9d904ee41b880b but is no longer available
and is thus not a library to use for NTLM. This aligns the FEATURES

FEATURES: remove yassl as TLS library for NTLM

yassl was added in commit 9d904ee41b880b but is no longer available
and is thus not a library to use for NTLM. This aligns the FEATURES
doc with the FAQ.

Closes: #8886
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>

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FEATURES: reorder footnotes

The empty left-behind footnote confused the website rendering into
creating a nested emoty list, making the resulting page look quite
odd. Remove and re-

FEATURES: reorder footnotes

The empty left-behind footnote confused the website rendering into
creating a nested emoty list, making the resulting page look quite
odd. Remove and re-order the remaining ones to avoid a gap in the
sequence.

Closes: #8886
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>

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docs: updates spellings with full words

Closes #8730

docs: lots of minor language polish

Mostly based on recent language decisions from "everything curl":

- remove contractions (isn't => is not)
- *an* HTTP (consistency)
- run

docs: lots of minor language polish

Mostly based on recent language decisions from "everything curl":

- remove contractions (isn't => is not)
- *an* HTTP (consistency)
- runtime (no hyphen)
- backend (no hyphen)
- URL is uppercase

Closes #8646

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docs: capitalize the name 'Netscape'

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/8354

misc: s/e-mail/email

Consistency is king. Following the lead in everything curl.

Closes #8159

metalink: remove

Warning: this will make existing curl command lines that use metalink to
stop working.

Reasons for removal:

1. We've found several security problems an

metalink: remove

Warning: this will make existing curl command lines that use metalink to
stop working.

Reasons for removal:

1. We've found several security problems and issues involving the
metalink support in curl. The issues are not detailed here. When
working on those, it become apparent to the team that several of the
problems are due to the system design, metalink library API and what
the metalink RFC says. They are very hard to fix on the curl side
only.

2. The metalink usage with curl was only very briefly documented and was
not following the "normal" curl usage pattern in several ways, making
it surprising and non-intuitive which could lead to further security
issues.

3. The metalink library was last updated 6 years ago and wasn't so
active the years before that either. An unmaintained library means
there's a security problem waiting to happen. This is probably reason
enough.

4. Metalink requires an XML parsing library, which is complex code (even
the smaller alternatives) and to this day often gets security
updates.

5. Metalink is not a widely used curl feature. In the 2020 curl user
survey, only 1.4% of the responders said that they'd are using it. In
2021 that number was 1.2%. Searching the web also show very few
traces of it being used, even with other tools.

6. The torrent format and associated technology clearly won for
downloading large files from multiple sources in parallel.

Cloes #7176

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docs/FEATURE: convert to markdown

... and clean it up a bit.

Closes #6067