diff --git a/dev-lang/clipsjni/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/clipsjni/metadata.xml
index 87cd0caf515a9..95bdb20e96787 100644
--- a/dev-lang/clipsjni/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lang/clipsjni/metadata.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <email>xgqt@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Maciej Barć</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <longdescription lang="en">
+  <longdescription>
     This package is a Java implementation of CLIPS with
     a native shared library and a IDE.
     CLIPS is a forward-chaining rule-based programming language written in C