diff --git a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
index 0a55862b5ff559e35bf379727961c9dedd72c4c2..1de5a4f2f9c71e7f8ffbdb4f2889f57c0511fa27 100644
--- a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
+++ b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@
 
 * Update pg_upgrade to handle new version, or disable
 
-* Update copyright year when needed
-    doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml will also need to be updated
-
 
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/tools/copyright b/src/tools/copyright
index 1c267c84f2bfd6eaad194724548a3fdec3486cae..47ba92535a1cebd38356acb0d80d8885c82ea8ab 100755
--- a/src/tools/copyright
+++ b/src/tools/copyright
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ rgrepc -l 'Copyright.*PostgreSQL Global Development Group' | while read FILE
 do
 	pipe sed 's/^\(.*Copyright (c) [12][0-9][0-9][0-9]-\)[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]\(, PostgreSQL Global Development Group.*\)$/\12004\2/' $FILE
 done
+
+echo "Manually update doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml too" 1>&2
+