diff --git a/docs/external.html b/docs/external.html
index 1a7f0af11..f66bcbdf8 100644
--- a/docs/external.html
+++ b/docs/external.html
@@ -321,10 +321,9 @@
                       <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="" rowspan="" 
       valign="top" align="left">
     <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
-          Releases 1.0 to 1.4 have been licensed under the GNU
-            General Public License.  Starting with release 2.0 the
-            license has been changed to the GNU Lesser General Public
-            License.
+          Starting with release 2.0 the license is the GNU
+            Lesser General Public License.  Prior releases were under
+            the GNU General Public License.
         </font>
   </td>
       </tr>
diff --git a/xdocs/external.xml b/xdocs/external.xml
index 800b9248f..9610621b1 100644
--- a/xdocs/external.xml
+++ b/xdocs/external.xml
@@ -98,10 +98,9 @@
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <th>License:</th>
-            <td>Releases 1.0 to 1.4 have been licensed under the GNU
-            General Public License.  Starting with release 2.0 the
-            license has been changed to the GNU Lesser General Public
-            License.</td>
+            <td>Starting with release 2.0 the license is the GNU
+            Lesser General Public License.  Prior releases were under
+            the GNU General Public License.</td>
           </tr>
         </table>
       </subsection>