code: language cleanup in comments

Based on the standards and guidelines we use for our documentation.

- expand contractions (they're => they are etc)
- host name = > hostname

code: language cleanup in comments

Based on the standards and guidelines we use for our documentation.

- expand contractions (they're => they are etc)
- host name = > hostname
- file name => filename
- user name = username
- man page => manpage
- run-time => runtime
- set-up => setup
- back-end => backend
- a HTTP => an HTTP
- Two spaces after a period => one space after period

Closes #14073

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curldown: Fix email address in Copyright

The curldown conversion accidentally replaced daniel@haxx.se with
just daniel.se. This reverts back to the proper email address in
the curld

curldown: Fix email address in Copyright

The curldown conversion accidentally replaced daniel@haxx.se with
just daniel.se. This reverts back to the proper email address in
the curldown docs as well as in a few other stray places where it
was incorrect (while unrelated to curldown).

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Closes: #12997

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copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges

- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- save

copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges

- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING

checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements

Closes #10205

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copyright: make repository REUSE compliant

Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the

copyright: make repository REUSE compliant

Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.

This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.

Closes #8869

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curl.se: new home

Closes #6172

easygetopt: pass a valid enum to avoid compiler warning

"integer constant not in range of enumerated type 'CURLoption'"

Reported-by: Gisle Vanem
Bug: https://github.com/curl/cur

easygetopt: pass a valid enum to avoid compiler warning

"integer constant not in range of enumerated type 'CURLoption'"

Reported-by: Gisle Vanem
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/6ebe63fac23f38df911edc348e8ccc72280f9434#commitcomment-42042843

Closes #5915

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configure: added --disable-get-easy-options

To allow disabling of the curl_easy_option APIs in a build.

Closes #5365

options: API for meta-data about easy options

const struct curl_easyoption *curl_easy_option_by_name(const char *name);

const struct curl_easyoption *curl_easy_option_by_id (CURLo

options: API for meta-data about easy options

const struct curl_easyoption *curl_easy_option_by_name(const char *name);

const struct curl_easyoption *curl_easy_option_by_id (CURLoption id);

const struct curl_easyoption *
curl_easy_option_next(const struct curl_easyoption *prev);

The purpose is to provide detailed enough information to allow for
example libcurl bindings to get option information at run-time about
what easy options that exist and what arguments they expect.

Assisted-by: Jeroen Ooms
Closes #5365

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