diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 64e485d6ce..72ba23146f 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -4657,7 +4657,7 @@
                 that the licenses collected during package generation
                 are included on your image.
                 As the source archiver has already archived the original
-                unmodified source which would contain the license files,
+                unmodified source that contains the license files,
                 you would have already met the requirements for inclusion
                 of the license information with source as defined by the GPL
                 and other open source licenses.