diff --git a/dev-libs/elfio/elfio-1.0.3.ebuild b/dev-libs/elfio/elfio-1.0.3.ebuild
index 91852fc49c3d0..aeb90436b2b8d 100644
--- a/dev-libs/elfio/elfio-1.0.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/elfio/elfio-1.0.3.ebuild
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 inherit eutils autotools
 
 MY_P=ELFIO-${PV}
-DESCRIPTION="ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) reader and producer implemented as a C++ library"
+DESCRIPTION="ELF reader and producer implemented as a C++ library"
 HOMEPAGE="http://elfio.sourceforge.net/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/elfio/${MY_P}.tar.gz"