diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 8299b84ca7..62c05f6ccf 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-syslog-ng was written by Balázs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
+syslog-ng was written by Balázs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
 
 Contributions under the contrib/ directory were contributed by a number of
 different people.
diff --git a/packaging/rhel/syslog-ng.spec b/packaging/rhel/syslog-ng.spec
index 062c804c5b..08f809df1e 100644
--- a/packaging/rhel/syslog-ng.spec
+++ b/packaging/rhel/syslog-ng.spec
@@ -179,11 +179,6 @@ developing applications that use %{name}.
 # fix executable perms on contrib files
 %{__chmod} -c a-x contrib/syslog2ng
 
-# fix authors file
-/usr/bin/iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 AUTHORS > AUTHORS.conv && \
-    %{__mv} -f AUTHORS.conv AUTHORS
-
-
 %build
 
 export GEOIP_LIBS=-lGeoIP