diff --git a/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.4.51.ebuild b/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.4.51.ebuild
index f3129defc7120..8b3ac122c07aa 100644
--- a/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.4.51.ebuild
+++ b/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.4.51.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ AUFS_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~jlec/distfiles/${AUFS_TARBALL}"
 
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 HOMEPAGE="https://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches http://aufs.sourceforge.net/"
-IUSE="deblob experimental module vanilla"
+IUSE="experimental module vanilla"
 
 DESCRIPTION="Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the linux kernel tree and aufs4 support"
 SRC_URI="
diff --git a/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.9.12.ebuild b/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.9.12.ebuild
index a65423a7668ce..252abcfe5b7e1 100644
--- a/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.9.12.ebuild
+++ b/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/aufs-sources-4.9.12.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ AUFS_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~jlec/distfiles/${AUFS_TARBALL}"
 
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 HOMEPAGE="https://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches http://aufs.sourceforge.net/"
-IUSE="deblob experimental module vanilla"
+IUSE="experimental module vanilla"
 
 DESCRIPTION="Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the linux kernel tree and aufs4 support"
 SRC_URI="
diff --git a/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/metadata.xml b/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/metadata.xml
index b971bbf4d4db7..ee9cfef440f5a 100644
--- a/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-kernel/aufs-sources/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
     <email>jlec@gentoo.org</email>
   </maintainer>
   <use>
-    <flag name="deblob">
-		Remove binary blobs from kernel sources to provide libre license 
-		compliance.
-	</flag>
     <flag name="experimental">
 		Apply experimental patches; for more information, 
 		see "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Kernel/Experimental".