Re: Requesting free-world packager for Net::SSL...

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

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.

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...

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.

greg