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 More information can be found at [www.icinga.com](https://www.icinga.com/products/icinga-2/)
 and inside the [documentation](https://www.icinga.com/docs/icinga2/latest/).
 
-## License
+## Licensing
 
 Icinga 2 and the Icinga 2 documentation are licensed under the terms of the GNU
 General Public License Version 2, you will find a copy of this license in the
 COPYING file included in the source package.
 
+In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
+permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
+OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each
+individual source file, and distribute linked combinations including
+the two.
+
+You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all
+of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify file(s) with this
+exception, you may extend this exception to your version of the
+file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
+so, delete this exception statement from your version. If you delete
+this exception statement from all source files in the program, then
+also delete it here.
+
 ## Installation
 
 Read the [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) file for more information about how to install it.