diff --git a/net-libs/libwebsockets/metadata.xml b/net-libs/libwebsockets/metadata.xml
index fd051da29eecc..20cee98014f4e 100644
--- a/net-libs/libwebsockets/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-libs/libwebsockets/metadata.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>jsmolic@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Jakov Smolić</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>luka.perkov@sartura.hr</email>
-		<name>Luka Perkov</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<use>
 		<flag name="access-log">Support generating Apache-compatible access logs</flag>
 		<flag name="client">The client part of the library and libwebsockets-test-client</flag>