diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 30751e319c..5856c359bd 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -2947,9 +2947,9 @@
      INHERIT += "${ARCHIVER_CLASS}"
      SOURCE_ARCHIVE_PACKAGE_TYPE = "tar"
                 </literallayout>
-                During the creation of your image, all GPL
-                or other copyleft licensed source
-                is placed within subdirectories of
+                During the creation of your image, the source from all
+                recipes that deploy packages to the image is placed within
+                subdirectories of
                 <filename>DEPLOY_DIR/sources</filename> based on the
                 <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-LICENSE'><filename>LICENSE</filename></ulink>
                 for each recipe.