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I'd like to clarify the process under which I enabled the SSL support in the MongoDB package; this feels like a suitable place todo that.
SSL support was requested by a number of people in the MongoDB package; specifically to support certain security related features for juju-core.
My initial stance was that this was not possible due to the know incompatibility between OpenSSL and GPL licenses - I discussed this with the Debian maintainer and we agreed; so I approached the copyright holder (10gen) for clarification on their position as to linking OpenSSL with MongoDB; their initial response was the they thought this was OK as OpenSSL is shipped with the distro so this fell under the 'system libraries' clause in GPL licensing.
I was uncomfortable as this is a grey area for the distro, so I requested a license exception be documented as part of MongoDB.
10gen clarified their position to me again in a formal letter rather than a documented License exception; I discussed with an archive admin and internal Canonical legal counsel and the opinion was that this was sufficient to enable this feature in Ubuntu. I agree this should have been documented in the package; this was my oversight.
At no point did I request a Ubuntu specific license exception.
As commented in #2 I'm working with 10gen to get this documented as a license exception in the MongoDB package itself as this appears to be the clearest path to resolving this issue.