diff --git a/dev-util/open-vcdiff/metadata.xml b/dev-util/open-vcdiff/metadata.xml
index 13b5fd2a7533b..4d97c1a4a4ec4 100644
--- a/dev-util/open-vcdiff/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/open-vcdiff/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>floppym@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Mike Gilbert</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="google-code">open-vcdiff</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">google/open-vcdiff</remote-id>