diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,29 +1,121 @@
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diff --git a/HsOpenSSL.cabal b/HsOpenSSL.cabal
--- a/HsOpenSSL.cabal
+++ b/HsOpenSSL.cabal
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tls>, which is a pure Haskell
     implementation of SSL.
     .
-Version:       0.10.3.4
+Version:       0.10.3.5
 License:       PublicDomain
 License-File:  COPYING
 Author:        Adam Langley, Mikhail Vorozhtsov, PHO, Taru Karttunen
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+Changes from 0.10.3.4 to 0.10.3.5
+---------------------------------
+* OpenSSL.withOpenSSL is now safe to be applied redundantly, suggested
+  by Andrew Cowie (#26).
+
+* COPYING: Update the license to CC0: copyright waiver with a public
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+  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
+
+
 Changes from 0.10.3.3 to 0.10.3.4
 ---------------------------------
 * Fix a compilation issue that occurs when using a different builddir
diff --git a/OpenSSL.hsc b/OpenSSL.hsc
--- a/OpenSSL.hsc
+++ b/OpenSSL.hsc
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@
     ( withOpenSSL
     )
     where
-
+import Control.Concurrent.MVar
+import Control.Monad
 import OpenSSL.SSL
+import System.IO.Unsafe
 
 
 foreign import ccall "HsOpenSSL_setupMutex"
@@ -59,9 +61,9 @@
 
 
 -- |Computation of @'withOpenSSL' action@ initializes the OpenSSL
--- library and computes @action@. Every applications that use
--- HsOpenSSL must wrap any operations related to OpenSSL with
--- 'withOpenSSL', or they might crash.
+-- library as necessary, and computes @action@. Every application that
+-- uses HsOpenSSL must wrap any operations involving OpenSSL with
+-- 'withOpenSSL', or they might crash:
 --
 -- > module Main where
 -- > import OpenSSL
@@ -70,10 +72,29 @@
 -- > main = withOpenSSL $
 -- >        do ...
 --
+-- Since 0.10.3.5, 'withOpenSSL' is safe to be applied
+-- redundantly. Library authors may wish to wrap their functions not
+-- to force their users to think about initialization:
+--
+-- > get :: URI -> IO Response
+-- > get uri = withOpenSSL $ internalImplementationOfGet uri
+--
 withOpenSSL :: IO a -> IO a
-withOpenSSL act
-    = do loadErrorStrings
-         addAllAlgorithms
-         libraryInit
-         setupMutex
-         act
+withOpenSSL io
+    -- We don't want our initialisation sequence to be interrupted
+    -- halfway.
+    = do modifyMVarMasked_ isInitialised $ \ done ->
+             do unless done $ do loadErrorStrings
+                                 addAllAlgorithms
+                                 libraryInit
+                                 setupMutex
+                return True
+         io
+
+
+-- This variable must be atomically fetched/stored not to initialise
+-- the library twice.
+isInitialised :: MVar Bool
+{-# NOINLINE isInitialised #-}
+isInitialised =
+    unsafePerformIO $ newMVar False
