diff --git a/support/legal-info/README.header b/support/legal-info/README.header
index 418de14588..1f3524f599 100644
--- a/support/legal-info/README.header
+++ b/support/legal-info/README.header
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ This material is composed of the following items.
    sources/ subdirectory (except for the non-redistributable packages, which
    have not been saved). Patches that were applied are also saved, along
    with a file named 'series' that lists the patches in the order they were
-   applied.
+   applied. Patches are under the same license as the files that they modify
+   in the original package.
  * A manifest file listing the configured packages and related information.
  * The license text of the packages; they have been saved in the licenses/
    subdirectory.