diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 7cba3d457..fc6c0070c 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -1,36 +1,21 @@
-This package was downloaded from http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel. 
+This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the Linux kernel.
 
-Linux was written by Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI>
-and others.
+It was downloaded from http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/.
 
 Copyright:
-1995-1997 H. Peter Anvin
-1996,1997 Linux International
-1997,1998 Andrew Tridgell
-1998 Michael Zucchi
-1999,2004 Matt Mackall
-2000 MontaVista Software, Inc.
-2000,2001 Tim Waugh
-2001 Simon Huggins
-2001-2003 Geert Uytterhoeven
-2002 David S. Miller
-2002 James Morris
-2002,2003 Randy Dunlap
-2002,2003 Kai Germaschewski
-2002-2003 Romain Lievin
-2002-2003 Rusty Russel
-2002-2005 Roman Zippel
-2002-2005 Sam Ravnborg
-2005 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
-2005,2006 Bastian Blank
-2006 Sam Ravnborg
+
+   Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Linux International
+                 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation
+                 2002, 2003 Kai Germaschewski
+                 2002-2004 Rusty Russell
+                 2002-2005 Roman Zippel
+   and others
 
 License:
 
    This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-   (at your option) any later version.
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+   published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
    This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ -41,5 +26,7 @@ License:
    along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
 
-On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
-Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version
+2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
+
+The Debian packaging is licensed under the GPL v2, see above.