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diff --git a/gr-howto-write-a-block/README b/gr-howto-write-a-block/README
index 1fad111d..368e7199 100644
--- a/gr-howto-write-a-block/README
+++ b/gr-howto-write-a-block/README
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #
-# Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2005,2006,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # 
 # This file is part of GNU Radio
 # 
 # GNU Radio 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, or (at your option)
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
 # any later version.
 # 
 # GNU Radio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
@@ -19,9 +19,16 @@
 # Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 # 
 
-This tarball contains a build tree with examples, Makefiles, etc that
-demonstrate how to write signal processing blocks for the GNU Radio
-system.  
+This directory (and the resulting tarball) contains a build tree with
+examples, Makefiles, etc that demonstrate how to write signal
+processing blocks for the GNU Radio system.  This directory is
+intentionally distributed separately from the unified tarball of the
+rest of GNU Radio in order to avoid problems for people who have begun
+to write blocks with a modified copy of gr-howto-write-a-block.
+
+This package requires that gnuradio-core is already installed.  It
+also depends on some GNU Radio prerequisites, such as Boost and
+cppunit.
 
 To build the examples from the tarball use the normal recipe:
 
@@ -29,16 +36,10 @@ To build the examples from the tarball use the normal recipe:
   $ make
   $ make check
 
-If you're building from CVS, you'll need to use this sequence, since
-CVS doesn't contain configure or the generated Makefiles.
+If you're building from git, you'll need to use this sequence, since
+git doesn't contain configure or the generated Makefiles.
 
   $ ./bootstrap
   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ make check
-
-
-The doc directory is not built by default.  This is to avoid spurious
-build problems on systems that don't have xmlto installed.  If you
-have xmlto and its dependencies installed, you can build the html
-version of the howto article by cd'ing to doc and invoking make.