--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-08-06  Joel E. Denny  <jdenny@clemson.edu>
+
+	update-copyright: update documentation to point to maint.mk
+	* build-aux/update-copyright: Here.
+
 2009-08-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
 	maint.mk: support update-copyright-local

--- a/build-aux/update-copyright
+++ b/build-aux/update-copyright
@@ -21,20 +21,9 @@
 # Written by Jim Meyering and Joel E. Denny
 
 # The arguments to this script should be names of files that contain FSF
-# copyright statements to be updated.  For example, you may wish to
-# place a target like the following in the top-level makefile in your
-# project:
-#
-#   .PHONY: update-copyright
-#   update-copyright:
-#       if test -d .git; then                                   \
-#         git grep -l -w Copyright                              \
-#           | grep -v -E '(^|/)(COPYING|ChangeLog)'             \
-#           | xargs $(srcdir)/build-aux/$@;                     \
-#       fi
-#
-# In the second grep, you can build a list of files to skip within your
-# project.
+# copyright statements to be updated.  For example, you might wish to
+# use the update-copyright target rule in maint.mk from gnulib's
+# maintainer-makefile module.
 #
 # Iff an FSF copyright statement is discovered in a file and the final
 # year is not the current year, the statement is updated for the new