license question

[Ken Cunningham]

I'm fixing up a submission for a piece of software called `profanity`.

I think the license should be

{GPL-3+ OpenSSLException}

but I don't exactly know what OpenSSLException means. 

Do I have it right? Thanks.

Ken



Here is the blurb.

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Profanity
Copyright (C) 2012 - 2017 James Booth <boothj5 at gmail.com>

Profanity is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Profanity is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Profanity.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

There is an additional exception from the author permitting linking
with OpenSSL:

As copyright holder, I give permission for profanity to be linked to
the OpenSSL libraries. This includes permission for profanity
binaries to be distributed linked against the OpenSSL libraries.
All other obligations under the GPL v3 remain intact.
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