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libwww-curl-perl package

  1. Bug #501557
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 501557

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gregor herrmann (gregoa) wrote : Re: [Pkg-perl-maintainers] [Bug 501557] Re: libwww-curl-perl is compiled without libssl, which breaks functionality

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:28:24 -0000, Patola wrote:

> I must say that I do not understand what's the licensing issue here.
> openssl has a MIT/BSD-style license that is compatible to libcurl and
> WWW::Curl MIT/BSD-style licenses, isn't it? Why the need for a GPL-
> compatible license?

As noted in the mentioned Debian bug report it might be a problem for
apps/modules using WWW::Curl.

Cheers,
gregor
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