diff --git a/textproc/bomstrip/pkg-descr b/textproc/bomstrip/pkg-descr
index 8d819580b36b..d2a98d7f9e8d 100644
--- a/textproc/bomstrip/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/bomstrip/pkg-descr
@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ issues, so there is absolutely no need to have three bytes (the
 utf-8-BOM) that do not say anything about the byte-order (since there
 is nothing to say).
 
-Author:	Mechiel Lukkien <mechiel@ueber.net>
 WWW: http://www.ueber.net/who/mjl/projects/bomstrip/