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FAQ: refreshed some very old language

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The ca cert bundle that used to be shipped with curl was very outdated and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