diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/i2cdev/i2cdev_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/i2cdev/i2cdev_git.bb
index b1f8a7f80575..b41ecffae430 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/i2cdev/i2cdev_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/i2cdev/i2cdev_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "\
     This package contains an I2C dev library and the i2c bus scanning \
     utility lsi2c. \
 "
-AUTHOR = "Danielle Costantino"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/costad2/i2cdev"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\