- 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
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
Issues and PRs with no activity for 180 days will get marked as stale,
and if no further activity happens within 14 more days, the issue gets
closed.
This follows our established policy of not letting stalled bugs "get in
the way": https://curl.haxx.se/docs/bugs.html#Closing_off_stalled_bugsCloses#1398
