diff --git a/www-plugins/freshplayerplugin/metadata.xml b/www-plugins/freshplayerplugin/metadata.xml
index fccc5290bc7e7..9355f3dea45ad 100644
--- a/www-plugins/freshplayerplugin/metadata.xml
+++ b/www-plugins/freshplayerplugin/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>grknight@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Brian Evans</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="gles2">Use system GLESv2 libraries instead of ANGLE for shader translation</flag>
 		<flag name="gtk3">Build with GTK+ 3 instead of GTK+ 2</flag>