diff --git a/CREDITS.TXT b/CREDITS.TXT
index b217ac50d23..378c8a06664 100644
--- a/CREDITS.TXT
+++ b/CREDITS.TXT
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-Inspired by the CREDITS file from the Linux source tree, this file is,
-likewise, at least a partial list of people who have contributed to the LLVM
-project. The format and the next paragraph are stolen directly from that file.
+This file is a partial list of people who have contributed to the LLVM
+project.  If you have contributed a patch or made some other contribution to
+LLVM, please submit a patch to this file to add yourself, and it will be 
+done!
 
 The list is sorted by name and formatted to allow easy grepping and
 beautification by scripts.  The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address