Thanks for the response, David.

Since we don't ship OpenSSL with the code base, perhaps having a configure
option is not a problem for us either--- that's a decision the user or packager
is making. 

Perhaps this is "Not our bug" then, but something for packagers to work out? 

I had the sense that this issue might be preventing us from being legitimately
included in some Linux distributions, but it seems I am wrong about that. 

I'm not excited about the administrative effort for a licensing exception, either.