If not for Google's recent spate of scraping people's stuff and publishing it verbatim with zero attribution, they'd get the benefit of the doubt regarding maliciousness. See genius.com's recent accusations

The smell like some "developer's developer" who thinks he can do a better job of libcurl and is so cocksure that he's going with the name libcrurl. Perhaps he'll put his name on it. Unlikely, as that would require skin in the game.