-This manual is for SILC Autodist (version @value{VERSION},
-@value{UPDATED}), a program which is used to manage and create source
-distributions.
-
-Copyright @copyright{} 2004 - 2005 Pekka Riikonen, SILC Project
-
-@quotation
-Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the @acronym{GNU} Free Documentation License,
-Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
-Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts
-being ``A @acronym{GNU} Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in
-(a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
-``@acronym{GNU} Free Documentation License.''
-
-(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have freedom to copy and
-modify this @acronym{GNU} Manual, like @acronym{GNU} software. Copies
-published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for
-@acronym{GNU} development.''
-@end quotation
+Autodist is a source distribution management system that allows powerful
+mechanisms to define what is included in and excluded from a distribution
+and what license is used. It is especially targeted at large software
+projects that create multiple distributions from a source tree. Autodist
+supports distribution management in directory, file, and file content
+level, and automatic relicensing of a distribution.
+