diff --git a/documentation/content/en/articles/license-guide/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/articles/license-guide/_index.adoc
--- a/documentation/content/en/articles/license-guide/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/articles/license-guide/_index.adoc
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@
 [.programlisting]
 ....
 /*-
- * Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
- *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
  */
 ....
 
@@ -151,9 +151,9 @@
 [.programlisting]
 ....
 /*-
- * Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
- *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
  */
 ....
 * The 3 clause version of the BSD license
@@ -161,9 +161,9 @@
 [.programlisting]
 ....
 /*-
- * Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
- *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) [year] [your name]
  */
 ....
 * The ISC License
@@ -171,9 +171,9 @@
 [.programlisting]
 ....
 /*-
- * Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]
- *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]
  */
 ....
 * The MIT License
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@
 [.programlisting]
 ....
 /*-
- * Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holders]
- *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holders]
  */
 ....
 == Software Collection License
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
 [[individual-files]]
 == Individual Files License
 
-Each individual file in the FreeBSD software collection has its own copyright and license.
+Each individual file in the FreeBSD software collection has its own license and copyright.
 How they are marked varies and is described in this section.
 
 A copyright notice identifies who claims the legal copyright to a file.
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
 There are four types of files in the FreeBSD software collection:
 
 . Files that have only an explicit copyright notice and license.
-. Files that have both an explicit copyright notice and license, and a SPDX-License-Identifier tag.
+. Files that have both an explicit copyright notice and license, and an SPDX-License-Identifier tag.
 . Files that have only a copyright notice and an SPDX-License-Identifier tag, but no explicit license.
 . Files that lack any copyright or license at all.
 
@@ -250,23 +250,20 @@
 The SPDX-License-Identifier tag is the project's best effort attempt to characterize the license, but is only informative for automated tools.
 See <<expressions,SPDX-License-Identifier Expressions>> for how to interpret the expression.
 
-=== Only Copyright and SPDX-License-Identifier expression.
+=== Only Copyright and SPDX-License-Identifier expression
 
 Some files in the tree contain detached licenses.
 These files contain only a copyright notice and an SPDX-License-Identifier expression, but no explicit license.
 See <<expressions,SPDX-License-Identifier Expressions>> for how to interpret the expression.
-Note: the expressions allowed for detached licenses by the project are a subset of the expressions used informationally or that are defined by the standard.
-
-The license for files containing only the SPDX-License-Identifier should be construed to be
+Note: The Project only allows a subset of standard license expressions for detached licenses.
 
-. Start the license with the copyright notice from the file.
-Include all the copyright holders.
-. For each sub-expression, copy the license text from [.filename]#LICENSE/text/`id`.txt#.
-When exceptions are present, append them from [.filename]#src/share/license/exceptions/`id`.txt#.
-SPDX-License-Identifier expressions should be construed as described in the SPDX standard.
+These source files must contain:
 
-Where `id` is the SPDX short license identifier from the `Identifier` column of https://spdx.org/licenses/[SPDX Identifiers] or https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html[license exception].
-If there is no file in [.filename]#LICENSE/#, then that license or exception cannot be specified as a detached license under this section.
+. An SPDX-License-Identifier as described in the SPDX standard.
+  If there is no file in LICENSE/, then that license or exception cannot be specified as a detached license under this section.
+  When exceptions are present, append them from src/share/license/exceptions/id.txt.
+  For each sub-expression, copy the license text from LICENSE/text/id.txt, where id is the SPDX short identifier from the Identifier column of SPDX Identifiers or license exceptions.
+. A copyright notice that contains all the copyright holders.
 
 When reading the license text that is detached from a file, a number of considerations must be taken to make the detached license make sense.
 
@@ -280,7 +277,7 @@
 
 For licenses that have slight variations in text, the SPDX has guidelines to match them.
 These guidelines are not relevant here.
-Contributors wishing to license under a variant of a SPDX license not contained verbatim in [.filename]#LICENSE/# cannot use the detached option and must specify the license explicitly.
+Contributors wishing to license under a variant of an SPDX license not contained verbatim in [.filename]#LICENSE/# cannot use the detached option and must specify the license explicitly.
 
 === Files without Copyright or any License Marking