diff --git a/src/tools/copyright.pl b/src/tools/copyright.pl
index ec389b6f7b..2b77c4f78a 100755
--- a/src/tools/copyright.pl
+++ b/src/tools/copyright.pl
@@ -62,6 +62,6 @@ sub wanted
 }
 
 print
-"Manually update doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml and src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in too.\n";
+"Manually update src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in too.\n";
 print
-"Also update ./COPYRIGHT and doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml in all back branches.\n";
+"Also update ./COPYRIGHT and doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml in head and all back branches.\n";