This was returning an empty allocated string, however almost
all callers checked if the return value was NULL before freeing,
making for misunderstandings on the intended use of this function.
BCAnimationSampler::initialize_curves for example detected the
f-curves animation type to 'bone' based on a non-NULL return value
which never failed.
Also fixes two leaks where the the result of BLI_str_quoted_substrN
wasn't freed.
This moves the `alembic`, `avi`, `collada`, and `usd` modules into a common
`io` directory.
This also cleans up some `#include "../../{somedir}/{somefile}.h"` by
adding `../../io/{somedir}` to `CMakeLists.txt` and then just using
`#include "{somefile}.h"`.
No functional changes.
