diff --git a/dev-java/jcommon/jcommon-1.0.23.ebuild b/dev-java/jcommon/jcommon-1.0.23.ebuild
index ab28455c52126..208f734743d68 100644
--- a/dev-java/jcommon/jcommon-1.0.23.ebuild
+++ b/dev-java/jcommon/jcommon-1.0.23.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source test"
 inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2 versionator
 
 MY_P=${PN}-$(replace_version_separator 3 -)
-DESCRIPTION="JCommon is a collection of useful classes used by JFreeChart, JFreeReport and other projects"
+DESCRIPTION="A collection of useful classes used by JFreeChart, JFreeReport and others"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.jfree.org/jcommon"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/jfreechart/${MY_P}.zip"