diff --git a/development/requirements.html b/development/requirements.html
index 75dd5ec1..d8614b64 100644
--- a/development/requirements.html
+++ b/development/requirements.html
@@ -632,10 +632,10 @@ alias boostdoc ;
                 preferred form is indicated in the <a href=
                 "../users/license.html">license information</a> page</li>
 
-                <li>Note that developers should not provide a copy of
-                <code>LICENSE_1_0.txt</code> with their libraries: Boost
-                distributions already include a copy in the Boost root
-                directory.</li>
+                <li>Note that developers are allowed to provide a copy of
+                the license text in <code>LICENSE_1_0.txt</code>,
+                <code>LICENSE.txt</code> or <code>LICENSE</code>
+                file within repositories of their libraries.</li>
 
                 <li>A comment line referencing your library on the Boost web
                 site. For example:
diff --git a/users/license.html b/users/license.html
index 4c0d346e..fd3288f8 100644
--- a/users/license.html
+++ b/users/license.html
@@ -219,12 +219,6 @@ https://www.boost.org/development/website_updating.html
               linked to. Refer to the HTML source code of this page in case
               of doubt.</span></p>
 
-              <p><span class="faq-answer">Note that the location of the local
-              LICENSE_1_0.txt needs to be indicated relatively to the
-              position of your documentation file
-              (<code>../LICENSE_1_0.txt</code>,
-              <code>../../LICENSE_1_0.txt</code> etc.)</span></p>
-
               <p class="faq"><span class="faq-question">How should Boost
               programmers maintain the copyright messages?</span>
               <span class="faq-answer">Copyright is only claimed for changes