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1.6 What do you get for making curl?
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Project cURL is entirely free and open. No person gets paid for developing
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curl full time. We do this voluntarily, mostly in our spare time.
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Occasionally companies pay individual developers to work on curl, but that's
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up to each company and developer. This is not controlled by nor supervised in
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any way by the project.
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Project cURL is entirely free and open. We do this voluntarily, mostly in
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our spare time. Companies may pay individual developers to work on curl,
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but that's up to each company and developer. This is not controlled by nor
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supervised in any way by the curl project.
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We still get help from companies. Haxx provides website, bandwidth, mailing
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lists etc, GitHub hosts the primary git repository and other services like
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the bug tracker at https://github.com/curl/curl. Also again, some companies
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have sponsored certain parts of the development in the past and I hope some
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will continue to do so in the future.
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We get help from companies. Haxx provides website, bandwidth, mailing lists
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etc, GitHub hosts the primary git repository and other services like the bug
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tracker at https://github.com/curl/curl. Also again, some companies have
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sponsored certain parts of the development in the past and I hope some will
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continue to do so in the future.
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If you want to support our project, consider a donation or a banner-program
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or even better: by helping us with coding, documenting or testing etc.
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See also: https://curl.haxx.se/sponsors.html
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1.7 What about CURL from curl.com?
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During the summer of 2001, curl.com was busy advertising their client-side
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We don't know how many users that downloaded or installed curl and then
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never use it.
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In May 2012 Daniel did a counting game and came up with a number that may
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be completely wrong or somewhat accurate. Over 500 million!
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See https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/05/16/300m-users/
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In 2020, we estimate that curl runs in rougly ten billion installations
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world wide.
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1.11 Why don't you update ca-bundle.crt
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The ca cert bundle that used to be shipped with curl was very outdated and
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must be replaced with an up-to-date version by anyone who wants to verify
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peers. It is no longer provided by curl. The last curl release that ever
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shipped a ca cert bundle was curl 7.18.0.
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In the cURL project we've decided not to attempt to keep this file updated
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(or even present anymore) since deciding what to add to a ca cert bundle is
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an undertaking we've not been ready to accept, and the one we can get from
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(or even present) since deciding what to add to a ca cert bundle is an
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undertaking we've not been ready to accept, and the one we can get from
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Mozilla is perfectly fine so there's no need to duplicate that work.
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Today, with many services performed over HTTPS, every operating system
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1.14 How do I submit my patch?
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When you have made a patch or a change of whatever sort, and want to submit
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that to the project, there are a few different ways we prefer:
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We strongly encourage you to submit changes and improvements directly as
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"pull requests" on github: https://github.com/curl/curl/pulls
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o send a patch to the curl-library mailing list. We're many subscribers
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there and there are lots of people who can review patches, comment on them
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and "receive" them properly.
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o if your patch changes or fixes a bug, you can also opt to submit a bug
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report in the bug tracker and attach your patch there. There are less
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people involved there.
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If you for any reason can't or won't deal with github, send your patch to
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the curl-library mailing list. We're many subscribers there and there are
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lots of people who can review patches, comment on them and "receive" them
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properly.
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Lots of more details are found in the CONTRIBUTE and INTERNALS docs.
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