54 files changed, 15 insertions, 82 deletions

diff --git a/databases/gigabase/pkg-descr b/databases/gigabase/pkg-descr
index 92cc9b5081b6..e07a2541ffba 100644
--- a/databases/gigabase/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/gigabase/pkg-descr
@@ -19,5 +19,4 @@ after system or application crash, you should not worry about it. The
 only thing you can have to do manually is stopping all database
 application if one of them is crashed leaving database blocked.
 
-Author: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@garret.ru>
 WWW: http://www.garret.ru/gigabase.html
diff --git a/databases/mrtg-mysql-load/pkg-descr b/databases/mrtg-mysql-load/pkg-descr
index 1c57570d8704..607be22bd9f5 100644
--- a/databases/mrtg-mysql-load/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/mrtg-mysql-load/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ mrtg-mysq-load is a small Perl script which is meant
 to be run by mrtg. It will fetch the total number of queries
 and slow queries handled by a mysql server.
 
-Author:	Carsten H. Pedersen <mysqlfaq@bitbybit.dk>
 WWW: http://www.bitbybit.dk/mysql/mrtg-mysql-load/
diff --git a/databases/mysql-q4m/pkg-descr b/databases/mysql-q4m/pkg-descr
index 8ec26cd30ecf..8155e2ace1bc 100644
--- a/databases/mysql-q4m/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/mysql-q4m/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ as a pluggable storage engine of MySQL 5.1, designed to be robust,
 fast, flexible.  The development started in late December of 2007, and
 although it is very primitive, operates quite swiftly.
 
-Author:	Kazuho Oku at Cybozu Labs, Inc.
-WWW:	http://q4m.github.com/
+WWW: http://q4m.github.com/
diff --git a/databases/p5-Class-DBI-DATA-Schema/pkg-descr b/databases/p5-Class-DBI-DATA-Schema/pkg-descr
index 93b125abfcaa..21b832525eb7 100644
--- a/databases/p5-Class-DBI-DATA-Schema/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/p5-Class-DBI-DATA-Schema/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This is an extension to Class::DBI which injects a method into your
 class to find and execute all SQL statements in the DATA section
 of the package.
 
-Author: Tony Bowden <bug-Class-DBI-DATA-Schema@rt.cpan.org>
 WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-DBI-DATA-Schema/
diff --git a/databases/p5-DBM-Deep/pkg-descr b/databases/p5-DBM-Deep/pkg-descr
index 2a6b964c51de..82d9307aa750 100644
--- a/databases/p5-DBM-Deep/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/p5-DBM-Deep/pkg-descr
@@ -5,7 +5,4 @@ unlimited hash levels without significant slow-down. Written from the ground-up
 in pure perl -- this is NOT a wrapper around a C-based DBM.  Out-of-the-box
 compatibility with Unix, Mac OS X and Windows.
 
-Author:	Joseph Huckaby <jhuckaby@cpan.org>
-	Rob Kinyon <rkinyon@cpan.org>
-
 WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBM-Deep/
diff --git a/databases/postgresql-plruby/pkg-descr b/databases/postgresql-plruby/pkg-descr
index 1c79c5fe22c9..8d857fe32868 100644
--- a/databases/postgresql-plruby/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/postgresql-plruby/pkg-descr
@@ -2,7 +2,4 @@ PL/Ruby is a loadable procedural language for the PostgreSQL database
 system (7.0 or later) that enables to write functions and trigger
 procedures in Ruby.
 
-Author:	Guy Decoux <ts@moulon.inra.fr> (deceased in July 2008)
-	Akinori MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org> (current maintainer)
-
-WWW:	http://github.com/knu/postgresql-plruby
+WWW: http://github.com/knu/postgresql-plruby
diff --git a/databases/py-sybase/pkg-descr b/databases/py-sybase/pkg-descr
index 941e550511c6..d7343009261f 100644
--- a/databases/py-sybase/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/py-sybase/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ A Python interface to the Sybase relational database system. The
 Sybase package supports all of the Python Database API, version 2.0
 with extensions.
 
-Author: Dave Cole <djc@object-craft.com.au>
 WWW: http://object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/
diff --git a/databases/pydbx/pkg-descr b/databases/pydbx/pkg-descr
index 2f794e791956..42f14c96e64a 100644
--- a/databases/pydbx/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/pydbx/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ dbx is a simple SQL database abstraction layer for Python.  The goal
 of dbx is to make using a SQL database as simple as possible while
 providing a consistent API across different databases.
 
-Author:	David Phillips <david@acz.org>
 WWW: http://david.acz.org/pydbx/
diff --git a/databases/ruby-mysql/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-mysql/pkg-descr
index 28fb8a22c3e6..f9205bc2f815 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-mysql/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-mysql/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is a Ruby module for accessing MySQL databases, which has the
 same functions as C API.
 
-Author:	TOMITA Masahiro <tommy@tmtm.org>
-WWW:	http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/
+WWW: http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-data_objects/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-data_objects/pkg-descr
index fca4a0cbfacc..ed2aed10921e 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-data_objects/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-data_objects/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ The purpose of DO.rb is to rewrite existing Ruby database drivers to conform to
 a single interface. 
 At present, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite adapters are available.
 
-Author: Dirkjan Bussink (dbussink) <d.bussink@gmail.com>
 WWW: https://github.com/datamapper/do
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-do_mysql/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-do_mysql/pkg-descr
index a711204676fe..a481937088e1 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-do_mysql/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-do_mysql/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ The purpose of DO.rb is to rewrite existing Ruby database drivers to conform to
 a single interface. 
 At present, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite adapters are available.
 
-Author: Dirkjan Bussink (dbussink) <d.bussink@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://rubygems.org/gems/do_mysql/
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-do_postgres/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-do_postgres/pkg-descr
index c958ff97f2f6..2ec2665a14b6 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-do_postgres/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-do_postgres/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ The purpose of DO.rb is to rewrite existing Ruby database drivers to conform to
 a single interface. 
 At present, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite adapters are available.
 
-Author: Dirkjan Bussink (dbussink) <d.bussink@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://rubygems.org/gems/do_postgres/
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-do_sqlite3/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-do_sqlite3/pkg-descr
index 9d3116a44d88..47b3a70207e4 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-do_sqlite3/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-do_sqlite3/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ The purpose of DO.rb is to rewrite existing Ruby database drivers to conform to
 a single interface. 
 At present, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite adapters are available.
 
-Author: Dirkjan Bussink (dbussink) <d.bussink@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://rubygems.org/gems/do_sqlite3/
diff --git a/databases/tablelog/pkg-descr b/databases/tablelog/pkg-descr
index 8e43538df8e2..68e7b6062773 100644
--- a/databases/tablelog/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/tablelog/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ any INSERTs, UPDATEs and DELETEs on a specific table into another table.
 The second part of tablelog is able to restore the state of the original
 table or of a specific row for any time in the past.
 
-Author: Andreas Scherbaum <ads-pgfoundry @nospam@ wars-nicht.de>
 WWW: http://tablelog.projects.postgresql.org/
diff --git a/deskutils/cartotheque/pkg-descr b/deskutils/cartotheque/pkg-descr
index e0bc320492db..82777b7063ee 100644
--- a/deskutils/cartotheque/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/cartotheque/pkg-descr
@@ -2,7 +2,3 @@ An application for managing notes on small cards (like punch cards :).
 The application uses a directory based repository for cards with various
 contents. Currently only one contents is supported, and that is RTF
 contents (NSAttributedString) editable by a text view.
-
-LICENSE: LGPL21
-
-Author: Stefan Urbanek
diff --git a/deskutils/gkrellm-reminder2/pkg-descr b/deskutils/gkrellm-reminder2/pkg-descr
index cf95948a01c8..09a8567b2190 100644
--- a/deskutils/gkrellm-reminder2/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/gkrellm-reminder2/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ A useful plugin for GKrellM that can remind you of important events.
 Events can be scheduled inside GKrellM's configuration and will be
 displayed in gkrellm-reminder's panel.
 
-Author: James Simonsen <simonjam@ucs.orst.edu>
 WWW: http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/Plugins.html
diff --git a/deskutils/gnustep-wrapper/pkg-descr b/deskutils/gnustep-wrapper/pkg-descr
index 273aeef0053e..c62c251ea016 100644
--- a/deskutils/gnustep-wrapper/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/gnustep-wrapper/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 GNUstepWrapper provides an easy way to create GNUstep app-wrappers of
 non-GNUstep applications. It is the most useful in conjunction with
 Enrico Sersale's GWorkspace environment.
-
-LICENSE: GPL2 or later
-
-Author: Raffael Herzog
diff --git a/deskutils/hebcal/pkg-descr b/deskutils/hebcal/pkg-descr
index e2564b96fb25..67fdec95c5f2 100644
--- a/deskutils/hebcal/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/hebcal/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Jewish calendar generator.
 
-Author: Danny Sadinoff <danny@sadinoff.com>
 WWW: http://www.hebcal.com/
diff --git a/deskutils/plans/pkg-descr b/deskutils/plans/pkg-descr
index 4ffa0d8ebd8d..a23ebd3ff3ec 100644
--- a/deskutils/plans/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/plans/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ o Easy Browser-Based Management
 o Database Support
 o Template-based design
 
-Author: Lloyd Dalton <daltonlp@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://www.planscalendar.com/
diff --git a/deskutils/py-vobject/pkg-descr b/deskutils/py-vobject/pkg-descr
index 45b7d3d11f14..70c39272ca81 100644
--- a/deskutils/py-vobject/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/py-vobject/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Vobject parses iCalendar and vCard files into Python data structures,
 decoding the relevant encodings. Also serializes vobject data structures
 to iCalendar, vCard, or (expirementally) hCalendar unicode strings.
 
-Author: Jeffrey Harris <jeffrey@osafoundation.org>
 WWW: http://vobject.skyhouseconsulting.com/
diff --git a/deskutils/tuxcards/pkg-descr b/deskutils/tuxcards/pkg-descr
index b09df7f4802b..2c9509db016e 100644
--- a/deskutils/tuxcards/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/tuxcards/pkg-descr
@@ -12,5 +12,4 @@ With TuxCards you have a tool at your hand to enter and manage every
 kind of notes and ideas in a structured manner. This makes it much
 more easier to find them as you are in need.
 
-Author: Alexander Theel
 WWW: http://www.tuxcards.de
diff --git a/deskutils/vym/pkg-descr b/deskutils/vym/pkg-descr
index 0b1877327953..46107b6fc332 100644
--- a/deskutils/vym/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/vym/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize
 tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts, to sort your ideas
 etc. Some people even think it is fun to work with such maps...
 
-Author: Uwe Drechsel  <vym@insilmaril.de>
 WWW: http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/index.html
diff --git a/devel/aifad/pkg-descr b/devel/aifad/pkg-descr
index 89927be29fe6..4d958e8a1e1c 100644
--- a/devel/aifad/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/aifad/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ more complex kinds of data. This allows users to more conveniently describe
 the data they want to have learnt, which can improve accuracy and complexity
 of resulting models.
 
-Author:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
 WWW: https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/aifad
diff --git a/devel/bglibs/pkg-descr b/devel/bglibs/pkg-descr
index 14cbb0c3fae9..6e5144ee3dd6 100644
--- a/devel/bglibs/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/bglibs/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This package contains a collection of libraries written by Bruce Guenter
 and put in use in his various "bgware" packages.
 
-Author: Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca>
-WWW:	http://untroubled.org/bglibs/
+WWW: http://untroubled.org/bglibs/
diff --git a/devel/c4/pkg-descr b/devel/c4/pkg-descr
index 69d5bf8fd770..b8728e984b95 100644
--- a/devel/c4/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/c4/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ provides a control file that is placed at the top of each client to
 set environment variables, such as P4PORT and P4CLIENT.  A man page is
 included.
 
-Author:	Neil Russell <caret@c-side.com>
-WWW:	http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadsupp.html
+WWW: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadsupp.html
diff --git a/devel/cvs2cl/pkg-descr b/devel/cvs2cl/pkg-descr
index 9151dff9d76e..5ee7f0d962f8 100644
--- a/devel/cvs2cl/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/cvs2cl/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ This Perl script does what you think it does: It produces a GNU-style
 ChangeLog for CVS-controlled sources, by running "cvs log" and parsing
 the output. Duplicate log messages get unified in the Right Way.
 
-Author:	Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
-WWW:	http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
+WWW: http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
diff --git a/devel/cvs2p4/pkg-descr b/devel/cvs2p4/pkg-descr
index 1f06bf9ba275..eef5091d5cce 100644
--- a/devel/cvs2p4/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/cvs2p4/pkg-descr
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-cvs2p4 -- CVS to Perforce Converter     
+cvs2p4 -- CVS to Perforce Converter
 
 This CVS to Perforce converter extracts metadata from a CVS repository
 and generates a Perforce depot using Perforce client commands. The
 converter handles Attic/ and .cvsignore, and has flexible support for
 branching.
-
-Author:	Richard Geiger <rmg@perforce.com>
diff --git a/devel/cvschangelogbuilder/pkg-descr b/devel/cvschangelogbuilder/pkg-descr
index 9e17b123e26a..b45ff1b4a82b 100644
--- a/devel/cvschangelogbuilder/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/cvschangelogbuilder/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ for a project hosted on a CVS server.
 Features include the ability to work with a remote cvs repository, detailed
 reporting, graphical HTML reports and building changelogs.
 
-Author: Laurent Destailleur
 WWW: http://cvschangelogb.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/devel/cvsweb/pkg-descr b/devel/cvsweb/pkg-descr
index 22ac5a46e92b..cc9529d873bd 100644
--- a/devel/cvsweb/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/cvsweb/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ Ken Coar <Ken.Coar@Golux.Com>, then Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>
 brought it back to the FreeBSD community and made further
 improvements.
 
-Author:	The FreeBSD Project <freebsd-cvsweb at FreeBSD dot org>
 WWW: http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/cvsweb.html
diff --git a/devel/cvsweb3/pkg-descr b/devel/cvsweb3/pkg-descr
index 37e0c506eead..55fa88bff83c 100644
--- a/devel/cvsweb3/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/cvsweb3/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ Ken Coar <Ken.Coar@Golux.Com>, then Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>
 brought it back to the FreeBSD community and made further
 improvements.  FreeBSD-CVSweb is currently maintained by Ville Skytta.
 
-Author:	The FreeBSD Project <freebsd-cvsweb at FreeBSD dot org>
 WWW: http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/cvsweb.html
diff --git a/devel/dwarfdump/pkg-descr b/devel/dwarfdump/pkg-descr
index 9056dc5a4550..895680277ee8 100644
--- a/devel/dwarfdump/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/dwarfdump/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 The dwarfdump tool prints the various elements of DWARF debugging
 information found in ELF object files.
 
-Author: David Anderson of SGI
 WWW: http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea/dwarf.html
diff --git a/devel/fga/pkg-descr b/devel/fga/pkg-descr
index 0879487d2407..9cef782dc072 100644
--- a/devel/fga/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/fga/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ General Public License, and it's easy to incorporate in other applications.
 A parallel version of the algorithm (using POSIX threads) is included in order
 to take advantage of multi-processor environments.
 
-Author:	Alessandro Presta <alessandro.presta@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://fga.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/devel/fistgen/pkg-descr b/devel/fistgen/pkg-descr
index af09ef4120c3..84a073908409 100644
--- a/devel/fistgen/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/fistgen/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ FiST (File System Translator) is a language for describing stackable file
 systems. Fistgen is the FiST language code translator. This package includes
 sources for fistgen and stackable templates for several operating systems.
 
-Author:	Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
 WWW: http://www.filesystems.org/
diff --git a/devel/flatzebra/pkg-descr b/devel/flatzebra/pkg-descr
index d18f39ac2b2c..623ba3f9634a 100644
--- a/devel/flatzebra/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/flatzebra/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Pierre Sarrazin <http://sarrazip.com/>
 This program is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
 See the file COPYING.
 
-Author: Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip@sarrazip.com>
 WWW: http://www3.sympatico.ca/sarrazip/en/
diff --git a/devel/gauche-readline/pkg-descr b/devel/gauche-readline/pkg-descr
index bcf7b151b61e..68f2b2f4c4e7 100644
--- a/devel/gauche-readline/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/gauche-readline/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Written in Scheme only, this adds input line editing feature to
 Gauche. Assumes VT100 compatible terminal capability.
 
-Author:	Julian Fondren
-WWW:	http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/packages.html
+WWW: http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/packages.html
diff --git a/devel/gazpacho/pkg-descr b/devel/gazpacho/pkg-descr
index 290444563366..6574cdfe67ab 100644
--- a/devel/gazpacho/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/gazpacho/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 GUI builder for the GTK+ toolkit designed to be ultra easy to use
 
-Author:	Lorenzo Gil Sanchez <lgs@sicem.biz>	
-WWW:	http://gazpacho.sicem.biz/
+WWW: http://gazpacho.sicem.biz/
diff --git a/devel/git-merge-changelog/pkg-descr b/devel/git-merge-changelog/pkg-descr
index 90f7b15ef930..e751979b9869 100644
--- a/devel/git-merge-changelog/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/git-merge-changelog/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
 This is a Git "merge" driver for GNU style ChangeLog files.
-
-Author:	Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
diff --git a/devel/go-flags/pkg-descr b/devel/go-flags/pkg-descr
index 50ff4d133a13..65a499cb5da6 100644
--- a/devel/go-flags/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/go-flags/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ flags package is similar in functionality to the go built-in flag
 package but provides more options and uses reflection to provide a
 convenient and succinct way of specifying command line options.
 
-Author: Jesse van den Kieboom
 WWW: http://godoc.org/github.com/jessevdk/go-flags
diff --git a/devel/go-runewidth/pkg-descr b/devel/go-runewidth/pkg-descr
index 991e6486fc1b..fd045facebc3 100644
--- a/devel/go-runewidth/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/go-runewidth/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Go-runewidth provides functions to get the fixed width of a character
 or string.
 
-Author: Yasuhiro Matsumoto
 WWW: https://github.com/mattn/go-runewidth
diff --git a/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr b/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr
index e2fdc69f4c0a..fc7e3b34b93f 100644
--- a/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr
@@ -8,5 +8,4 @@ and other terminal-like APIs in a minimalistic fashion.  Small API
 means it is easy to implement, test, maintain and learn it, that's
 what makes the termbox a distinct library in its area.
 
-Author: nsf <no.smile.face@gmail.com>
 WWW: https://code.google.com/p/termbox/
diff --git a/devel/guichan/pkg-descr b/devel/guichan/pkg-descr
index c18e57e5bf81..51239448afa0 100644
--- a/devel/guichan/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/guichan/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Guichan is a portable C++ GUI library designed for 
 games using Allegro, SDL and/or OpenGL.
 
-Author: Tobias Gion <info@gionet.de>
 WWW: http://guichan.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/devel/libccid/pkg-descr b/devel/libccid/pkg-descr
index 29c8c3c6b688..e4d02f20925b 100644
--- a/devel/libccid/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libccid/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Generic USB CCID (Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices) driver.
 
-Author:	Ludovic Rousseau
-WWW:	http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html
+WWW: http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html
diff --git a/devel/libdwarf/pkg-descr b/devel/libdwarf/pkg-descr
index 8abf202b259c..a3cee9ca42bc 100644
--- a/devel/libdwarf/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libdwarf/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ The libdwarf library is the base for the dwarfdump utility
 by the same author.  It implements routines to access the
 DWARF debugging information found in ELF object files.
 
-Author:		David Anderson of SGI
-WWW:		http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea/dwarf.html
+WWW: http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea/dwarf.html
diff --git a/devel/libelf/pkg-descr b/devel/libelf/pkg-descr
index b1ef68cc8cce..c39657adf3fe 100644
--- a/devel/libelf/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libelf/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ From the libelf README file:
   that use libelf and work with the commercial (SVR4, Solaris)
   version but not with this one, please contact me.
 
-Author:		Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>
-WWW:		http://www.mr511.de/software/
+WWW: http://www.mr511.de/software/
diff --git a/devel/libgpc/pkg-descr b/devel/libgpc/pkg-descr
index e04f7bd424cf..f7d12d72dc7f 100644
--- a/devel/libgpc/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libgpc/pkg-descr
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ Copyright: (C) 1997-2004, Advanced Interfaces Group,
 	of any commercial product without the express consent of the
 	author.
 
-Author: Alan Murta (email: gpc@cs.man.ac.uk)
-
-WWW:	http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/
+WWW: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/
 
 	Software documentation at
-WWW:	http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/gpc.html
+WWW: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/gpc.html
diff --git a/devel/libinotify/pkg-descr b/devel/libinotify/pkg-descr
index 849d190f328e..38eeb6cf912a 100644
--- a/devel/libinotify/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libinotify/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ when porting Linux applications, which often use inotify interface.
 The IN_OPEN, IN_CLOSE_WRITE and IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE events are not yet
 implemented, so the relevant tests are known to fail.
 
-Author:	Dmitry Matveev <me@dmitrymatveev.co.uk>
 WWW: https://github.com/dmatveev/libinotify-kqueue
diff --git a/devel/libytnef/pkg-descr b/devel/libytnef/pkg-descr
index eef656b27e28..6acae59fe950 100644
--- a/devel/libytnef/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libytnef/pkg-descr
@@ -13,5 +13,4 @@ to view them.
 
 Now supports winmail.dat Outlook files
 
-Author: Randall Hand <randall.hand@gmail.com> 	
-WWW:	http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/
+WWW: http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/devel/lmdbg/pkg-descr b/devel/lmdbg/pkg-descr
index 72d6e3d84cf3..16ed2612c913 100644
--- a/devel/lmdbg/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/lmdbg/pkg-descr
@@ -7,5 +7,4 @@ and double frees. However, unlike others, LMDBG generates full
 stacktraces and separates the logging process from analysis, thus
 allowing you to analyze an application on a per-module basis.
 
-Author: Aleksey Cheusov (cheusov at users.sourceforge.net)
 WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmdbg
diff --git a/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr
index 1b3a7fc61629..3b7ddef9b6ee 100644
--- a/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ one /was/ extlib, now annexlib. Its companion is mathlib.
 
 See supplied documentation for additional info.
 
-Author:	Shawn Wagner <shawnw@speakeasy.org>
 WWW: http://raevnos.pennmush.org/code/extlib/
diff --git a/devel/ocaml-cfg/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-cfg/pkg-descr
index 363ea58c4c3c..0f2be5b1c604 100644
--- a/devel/ocaml-cfg/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ocaml-cfg/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This OCaml-library consists of a set of modules which implement functions
 for manipulating context-free grammars (CFGs) in a purely functional way.
 
-Author:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
 WWW: https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/cfg
diff --git a/devel/ocaml-findlib/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-findlib/pkg-descr
index d4f0c8c76e63..7329685c67da 100644
--- a/devel/ocaml-findlib/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ocaml-findlib/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ the user to enter queries on the command-line. In order to simplify
 compilation and linkage, there are new frontends of the various OCaml
 compilers that can directly deal with packages.
 
-Author:	Gerd Stolpmann <gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de>
 WWW: http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html
diff --git a/devel/ocaml-res/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-res/pkg-descr
index 0b6c1dceaac2..2737c3e8c103 100644
--- a/devel/ocaml-res/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ocaml-res/pkg-descr
@@ -8,5 +8,4 @@ access to elements.
 There are also functors that allow the generation of similar modules
 which use different reallocation strategies.
 
-Author:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
 WWW: https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/res
diff --git a/devel/ocaml-sexplib/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-sexplib/pkg-descr
index 0defc6498fb9..e193b1c90984 100644
--- a/devel/ocaml-sexplib/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ocaml-sexplib/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ OCaml-values are reported in a very human-readable way. Another module
 in the library allows you to extract and replace sub-expressions in
 S-expressions.
 
-Author: Markus Mottl <mmottl@janestcapital.com>
 WWW: http://janestreet.github.io/
diff --git a/devel/ocaml-xstr/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-xstr/pkg-descr
index 509345006786..e5c80f63500d 100644
--- a/devel/ocaml-xstr/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ocaml-xstr/pkg-descr
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ Some operations of xstr are performed as quickly as by Str; if the string
 to be processed is small, xstr is often faster than Str; if the string is
 big, xstr is up to half as fast than Str.
 
-Author:	Gerd Stolpmann <gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de>
 WWW: http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/xstr.html