The copyright exception is in the upstream readme, in the source tarball under share/doc. The readme is where xchat mentions the OpenSSL exception, as well. This is one of the first things I discussed with #debian-mentors when I started this process and a couple people said it was fine to have the exception mentioned in a readme and not specifically in a LICENSE file, it just needs to be there.
But if that's incorrect and upstream really does need to make some changes, I'll talk to them about it. Shouldn't be too hard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org