Re: Requesting free-world packager for Net::SSL...
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> I just looked into that and found this at the top of the readme:
>
> *** NOTE!! This SSLeay interface is already depreciated!!!!
> ***
> *** Eric Young is currently implementing his own version of the
> *** SSLeay modules for Perl. You should not really use this code,
> *** but instead wait for Eric's version. When it appears
> *** Crypt-SSLeay will go away.
Interesting.
> And to make matters worse:
>
> > You must first install SSLeay-0.6.6. The Crypt::SSLeay module does
> > not really work the the 0.8.X versions of SSLeay yet. Once this is
> > accomplished you just perform the usual steps:
>
> We're up to SSLeay 0.9 now...
Oy. Maybe I need to spend some time investigating the SSL situation
for Perl. :-(
> Also, the readme didn't give any details on where the software was
> developped. If it was developped in the US it's basically
> useless. I mean, I think it would technically be legal for me to
> package it, and it would definitely be legal for someone outside
> North America to package it, but I'm not interested in treading that
> close to the edge of the law.
Sorry, that's why I specified "free-world packager". If you're at
MIT, you don't count. :-) Elsewise I'd have just done it myself.
I guess all I know for sure is that libwww-perl wants to be able to
"use Net::SSL", and thus I'd like to see someone who could
redistribute it (which implicitly implies non-US) package that. I
don't, however, think it's important enough to keep around a version
of SSLeay just for that.
Mike.
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