Perl-Tie-Handle-HTTP is a project mainly written in Perl, it's free.
The README is used to introduce the module and provide instructions on how to install the module, any machine dependencies it may have (for example C compilers and installed libraries) and any other information that should be provided before the module is installed.
A README file is required for CPAN modules since CPAN extracts the README file from a module distribution so that people browsing the archive can use it get an idea of the modules uses. It is usually a good idea to provide version information here so that people can decide whether fixes for the module are worth downloading.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
blah blah blah
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Put the correct copyright and licence information here.
Copyright (C) 2006 by LiveJournal user
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.