diff --git a/games-strategy/freeciv/freeciv-3.0.1-r1.ebuild b/games-strategy/freeciv/freeciv-3.0.1-r1.ebuild
index 01f0ad879e670..b9f2024bc3a76 100644
--- a/games-strategy/freeciv/freeciv-3.0.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/games-strategy/freeciv/freeciv-3.0.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ fi
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2+"
 SLOT="0"
-IUSE="aimodules auth dedicated +gtk ipv6 mapimg modpack mysql nls qt5 readline sdl +server +sound sqlite system-lua"
+IUSE="aimodules auth dedicated +gtk ipv6 mapimg modpack mysql nls qt5 readline sdl +server +sound sqlite +system-lua"
 
 REQUIRED_USE="system-lua? ( ${LUA_REQUIRED_USE} )"
 
diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use.mask b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
index 8eb5b999f46e9..ad2cc7f835a9a 100644
--- a/profiles/base/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
@@ -759,10 +759,6 @@ dev-java/icedtea cacao jamvm
 # dev-lang/python[berkdb] fails with recent multilib sys-libs/db (bug 519584).
 dev-lang/python berkdb
 
-# Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> (2015-03-19)
-# >=games-strategy/freeciv-2.5.0 requires >=dev-lang/lua-5.2
-games-strategy/freeciv system-lua
-
 # Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> (2015-02-11)
 # Cluster code is still under development, only base functionality
 # is implemented. Masking for testing and evaluation.