diff --git a/dev-libs/faxpp/faxpp-0.4.ebuild b/dev-libs/faxpp/faxpp-0.4.ebuild
index 7a149d0981905..97b477f3efc84 100644
--- a/dev-libs/faxpp/faxpp-0.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/faxpp/faxpp-0.4.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Small, fast and conformant XML pull parser written in C with an API that can return UTF-8 or UTF-16 strings"
+DESCRIPTION="Small, fast and conformant XML pull parser written in C"
 HOMEPAGE="http://faxpp.sourceforge.net/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0"