coreutils & openssl

[Michael Stone]

I've gotten another ping about distributing the debian coreutils package 
linked against openssl. Putting arguments about the technical merits 
aside, I'm confused about the license implications of doing so. 
coreutils has a --with-openssl option, but does not have a license 
exception for linking with openssl as gpl-incompatible code. Am I 
missing something?

Mike Stone