diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 62f955927..8f23aa7d6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ docker run -it -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
   codercom/code-server:latest
 ```
 
-### Self contained releases
+### Static releases
 
 We publish self contained `.tar.gz` archives for every release on [github](https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases).
 They bundle the node binary and compiled native modules.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ They bundle the node binary and compiled native modules.
 
 Add the code-server `bin` directory to your `$PATH` to easily execute `code-server` without the full path every time.
 
-Here is an example script for installing and using a self-contained `code-server` release on Linux:
+Here is an example script for installing and using a static `code-server` release on Linux:
 
 ```bash
 curl -sSL https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/3.3.0/code-server-3.3.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz | sudo tar -C /usr/local -xz
diff --git a/ci/README.md b/ci/README.md
index aa0dd5a32..3fc3e7ff5 100644
--- a/ci/README.md
+++ b/ci/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Make sure you have `$GITHUB_TOKEN` set and [hub](https://github.com/github/hub)
    the updated version.
    1. Summarize the major changes in the release notes and link to the relevant issues.
 4. Wait for the artifacts in step 2 to build.
-5. Run `yarn release:github-assets` to download the `release-packages` artifact and then upload them to the draft release.
+5. Run `yarn release:github-assets` to download the `release-packages` artifact and then
+   upload them to the draft release.
 6. Run some basic sanity tests on one of the released packages.
 7. Publish the release.
    1. CI will automatically grab the artifacts and then:
@@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ Helps avoid clobbering the CI configuration.
   - Runs the release process.
   - Generates the npm package at `./release`.
 - [./steps/release-static.sh](./steps/release-static.sh)
-  - Takes the output of the previous script and generates a self-contained release and
+  - Takes the output of the previous script and generates a static release and
     release packages into `release-packages`.
 - [./steps/publish-npm.sh](./steps/publish-npm.sh)
   - Grabs the `npm-package` release artifact for the current commit and publishes it on npm.
diff --git a/doc/CONTRIBUTING.md b/doc/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 239560599..51609f946 100644
--- a/doc/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/doc/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ yarn release:static
 yarn test:static-release
 yarn package
 # The static release is in ./release-static
-# .deb, .rpm and the self-contained archive are in ./release-packages
+# .deb, .rpm and the static archive are in ./release-packages
 ```
 
 ## Structure