diff --git a/dev-go/licenseclassifier/metadata.xml b/dev-go/licenseclassifier/metadata.xml
index b5b604568d176..3ecd94373bce7 100644
--- a/dev-go/licenseclassifier/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-go/licenseclassifier/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-    <email>kpp+gentoo@qrator.net</email>
-    <name>Konstantin Ignatov</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription>
     The license classifier is a library and set of tools that can analyze text
     to determine what type of license it contains. It searches for license texts