diff --git a/data/conky-dfly-smp.conf b/data/conky-dfly-smp.conf
index 2f7f49af..fac3afb0 100644
--- a/data/conky-dfly-smp.conf
+++ b/data/conky-dfly-smp.conf
@@ -1,28 +1,15 @@
---[[
-Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
-
-Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
-
-All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
-
-Please see COPYING for details
-
-Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
-Copyright (c) 2005-2021 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
-All rights reserved.
-
-This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-]]
+-- Conky, a system monitor https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
+--
+-- This configuration file is Lua code. You can write code in here, and it will
+-- execute when Conky loads. You can use it to generate your own advanced
+-- configurations.
+--
+-- Try this (remove the `--`):
+--
+--   print("Loading Conky config")
+--
+-- For more on Lua, see:
+-- https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html
 
 conky.config = {
     alignment = 'bottom_left',
diff --git a/data/conky.conf b/data/conky.conf
index 83ca7487..44053d55 100644
--- a/data/conky.conf
+++ b/data/conky.conf
@@ -1,28 +1,15 @@
---[[
-Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
-
-Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
-
-All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
-
-Please see COPYING for details
-
-Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
-Copyright (c) 2005-2021 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
-All rights reserved.
-
-This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-]]
+-- Conky, a system monitor https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
+--
+-- This configuration file is Lua code. You can write code in here, and it will
+-- execute when Conky loads. You can use it to generate your own advanced
+-- configurations.
+--
+-- Try this (remove the `--`):
+--
+--   print("Loading Conky config")
+--
+-- For more on Lua, see:
+-- https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html
 
 conky.config = {
     alignment = 'top_left',
diff --git a/data/conky_no_x11.conf b/data/conky_no_x11.conf
index 686c6c41..4246daad 100644
--- a/data/conky_no_x11.conf
+++ b/data/conky_no_x11.conf
@@ -1,27 +1,15 @@
--- Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
-
--- Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
-
--- All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
-
--- Please see COPYING for details
-
--- Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
--- Copyright (c) 2005-2021 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
--- All rights reserved.
-
--- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
--- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
--- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
--- (at your option) any later version.
-
--- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
--- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
--- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
--- GNU General Public License for more details.
--- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
--- along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
+-- Conky, a system monitor https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
+--
+-- This configuration file is Lua code. You can write code in here, and it will
+-- execute when Conky loads. You can use it to generate your own advanced
+-- configurations.
+--
+-- Try this (remove the `--`):
+--
+--   print("Loading Conky config")
+--
+-- For more on Lua, see:
+-- https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html
 
 conky.config = {
 	background = false,