SSL_free() decrements the reference count of B<ssl>, and removes the SSL
structure pointed to by B<ssl> and frees up the allocated memory if the
reference count has reached 0.
+If B<ssl> is NULL nothing is done.
=head1 NOTES
The ssl session has reference counts from two users: the SSL object, for
which the reference count is removed by SSL_free() and the internal
session cache. If the session is considered bad, because
-L<SSL_shutdown(3)|SSL_shutdown(3)> was not called for the connection
-and L<SSL_set_shutdown(3)|SSL_set_shutdown(3)> was not used to set the
+L<SSL_shutdown(3)> was not called for the connection
+and L<SSL_set_shutdown(3)> was not used to set the
SSL_SENT_SHUTDOWN state, the session will also be removed
from the session cache as required by RFC2246.
SSL_free() does not provide diagnostic information.
-L<SSL_new(3)|SSL_new(3)>, L<SSL_clear(3)|SSL_clear(3)>,
-L<SSL_shutdown(3)|SSL_shutdown(3)>, L<SSL_set_shutdown(3)|SSL_set_shutdown(3)>,
-L<ssl(3)|ssl(3)>
+L<SSL_new(3)>, L<SSL_clear(3)>,
+L<SSL_shutdown(3)>, L<SSL_set_shutdown(3)>,
+L<ssl(3)>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+
+Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
+this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
+in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
+L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
=cut