diff --git a/x11-misc/xwrits/xwrits-2.26.ebuild b/x11-misc/xwrits/xwrits-2.26.ebuild
index 0c749387a6575..ac39dff624c0f 100644
--- a/x11-misc/xwrits/xwrits-2.26.ebuild
+++ b/x11-misc/xwrits/xwrits-2.26.ebuild
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
-DESCRIPTION="Reminds you to take wrist breaks, which will hopefully help you prevent repetitive stress injury"
+DESCRIPTION="Reminds you to take wrist breaks to help you prevent repetitive stress injury"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.lcdf.org/xwrits/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.lcdf.org/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"