diff --git a/README b/README
index 9c9fe6534..d2066a001 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ See ChangeLog for the list of the recent changes and NEWS for highlights.
 
 Copyright (C) 1997-2019 Stuart Parmenter and others
 
-See 'COPYING' for licence information.  Please note linking against
-OpenSSL libraries is explicitly allowed.
+See 'COPYING' for licence information.
 
 See 'AUTHORS' for a list of contributors
 
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ Note: requires GpgME version >= 1.5.0
 	This enables GSSAPI Kerberos based authentication scheme. 
 Specify the kerberos directory as the argument.
 
---with-html-widget=(no|gtkhtml4|webkit2)
+--with-html-widget=(no|webkit2)
         Choose preferred HTML renderer library.
 When using webkit2, in order to quote html-only messages
 it is recommended to install a html-to-text conversion tool.  Supported
@@ -109,8 +108,6 @@ messages, and for syntax highlighting in attachments.
 
 Libraries:
 ---------
-Balsa needs the aspell spell checking libraries.
-
 	Make sure you have libtool installed (if you get some error 
 messages during compilation or when running precompiled binaries saying that
 libtdl is missing it means you need to install just that package).