Some IDN sequences are converted into "" (nothing), which can make this
function end up with a zero length host name and we cannot consider that
a valid host to continue with.
Reported-by: Maciej Domanski
Closes#10617
- 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
