Add an "SSL exception" to the license.

This is to clarify that mitmproxy can be distributed with OpenSSL. It's unclear
whether this is really needed, but I've had at least one request for this, and
there's a precendent in other Open Source projects.
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mitmproxy is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License version 3, with the following addition:
In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
permission to link the code of this program or portions of this
program with the OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified
versions of it that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library),
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) provided
under this license, you may extend this exception to your version of
the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
so, delete this exception statement from your version.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 29 June 2007