diff --git a/build/make/configure.sh b/build/make/configure.sh
index 26c6af073..1f4f24db9 100755
--- a/build/make/configure.sh
+++ b/build/make/configure.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ##
-##  Copyright (c) 2010 The VP8 project authors. All Rights Reserved.
+##  configure.sh
 ##
-##  Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license and patent
-##  grant that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
-##  tree. All contributing project authors may be found in the AUTHORS
-##  file in the root of the source tree.
+##  This script is sourced by the main configure script and contains
+##  utility functions and other common bits that aren't strictly libvpx
+##  related.
+##
+##  This build system is based in part on the FFmpeg configure script.
 ##
-
 
 
 #
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index b7fac9a33..d7d041c27 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ##
-##  Copyright (c) 2010 The VP8 project authors. All Rights Reserved.
+##  configure
 ##
-##  Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license and patent
-##  grant that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
-##  tree. All contributing project authors may be found in the AUTHORS
-##  file in the root of the source tree.
+##  This script is the front-end to the build system. It provides a similar
+##  interface to standard configure scripts with some extra bits for dealing
+##  with toolchains that differ from the standard POSIX interface and
+##  for extracting subsets of the source tree. In theory, reusable parts
+##  of this script were intended to live in build/make/configure.sh,
+##  but in practice, the line is pretty blurry.
+##
+##  This build system is based in part on the FFmpeg configure script.
 ##
 
 #source_path="`dirname \"$0\"`"