diff --git a/docs/jdom-package-list/README.TXT b/docs/jdom-package-list/README.TXT
index 1e4e938..3515d0e 100644
--- a/docs/jdom-package-list/README.TXT
+++ b/docs/jdom-package-list/README.TXT
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Ant's Javadoc task requires that a package list be named package-list,
 and thus you give the task the name of the directory containing that
-file.  Thus, this directory must exist so that our API docs will link
-to the JDOM classes.
+file.  Thus, this directory must exist so that our API docs can link
+to the JDOM classes if we choose to do so.
 
 package-list was downloaded from .../apidocs/package-list.  (I.e.,
 it's a sibling of JDOM's index.html file.)