No you can't. They were not your lawyer, it was a blog on the internet by some random person. "IANAL" needs to die. You take free info with a grain of salt. It points you in the right (or wrong) direction.
No it means a comprehensive code review that fixes all the ugly shit openssl devs have put in. It's a crap codebase and probably a tough call to not just destroy outright and start fresh.