diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index f1bd809..d217b56 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 bip copyright 2004 2005 Arnaud Cornet and loic Gomez, is released under the
 terms of the GNU GPL, License that you can find below.
 
+Specific permission is granted for the GPLed code in this distribition to
+be linked to OpenSSL without invoking GPL clause 2(b).
+
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 		    
 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f5a0394..79cb528 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Arnaud Cornet <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>
 Standards-Version: 3.6.2.1
-Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 4.9.13), bison, flex
+Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 4.9.13), bison, flex, libssl-dev
 
 Package: bip
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index d489c1d..c19b8ef 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,5 +2,3 @@
 
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
-
-#DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS:= --disable-ssl