diff --git a/meta-initramfs/recipes-kernel/kexec/kexec-tools-klibc_git.bb b/meta-initramfs/recipes-kernel/kexec/kexec-tools-klibc_git.bb
index 88f32c8182..5c7e84cc99 100644
--- a/meta-initramfs/recipes-kernel/kexec/kexec-tools-klibc_git.bb
+++ b/meta-initramfs/recipes-kernel/kexec/kexec-tools-klibc_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # the binaries are statically linked against klibc
 SUMMARY = "Kexec tools, statically compiled against klibc"
-AUTHOR = "Eric Biederman"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/"
 SECTION = "kernel/userland"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"