diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 94a045322..2fdf9242d 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+Deluge is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 with the
+addition of the following special exception:
+
+In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
+permission to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL
+library.
+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.
+
                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                        Version 3, 29 June 2007