diff --git a/doc/copyright.texi b/doc/copyright.texi
index 7721a09f7..7cf5d1395 100644
--- a/doc/copyright.texi
+++ b/doc/copyright.texi
@@ -126,6 +126,9 @@ SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 libeditline
 
+This is a modified version of libeditline and the bugs we introduced
+are our own.
+
 @verbatim
 
 Copyright 1992 Simmule Turner and Rich Salz.  All rights reserved.