- 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
- Load Windows system libraries secur32 and iphlpapi beforehand, so
that libcurl's repeated global init/cleanup only increases/decreases
the library's refcount rather than causing it to load/unload.
Assisted-by: Marc Hoersken
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/9412
Referring to Daniel's article [1], making the init function thread-safe
was the last bit to make libcurl thread-safe as a whole. So the name of
the feature may as well be the more concise 'threadsafe', also telling
the story that libcurl is now fully thread-safe, not just its init
function. Chances are high that libcurl wants to remain so in the
future, so there is little likelihood of ever needing any other distinct
`threadsafe-<name>` feature flags.
For consistency we also shorten `CURL_VERSION_THREADSAFE_INIT` to
`CURL_VERSION_THREADSAFE`, update its description and reference libcurl's
thread safety documentation.
[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/06/08/making-libcurl-init-more-thread-safe/
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Reviewed-by: Jay Satiro
Closes#8989
This flag can be used to make sure that curl_global_init() is
thread-safe.
This can be useful for libraries that can't control what other
dependencies are doing with Curl.
Closes#8680
