diff --git a/app-text/hunspell/metadata.xml b/app-text/hunspell/metadata.xml
index 9ffc5a6895c11..66fcbb8aeb345 100644
--- a/app-text/hunspell/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/hunspell/metadata.xml
@@ -1,15 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>elizabeth@interlinked.me</email>
-		<name>Elizabeth Myers</name>
-		<description>Proxied maintainer; set to assignee in all bugs</description>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="sourceforge">hunspell</remote-id>
 	</upstream>