diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bc4114f1ab30..3257d3d96767 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
-# (c) 2001, Dave Jones. <davej@redhat.com> (the file handling bit)
+# (c) 2001, Dave Jones. (the file handling bit)
 # (c) 2005, Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> (the ugly bit)
 # (c) 2007,2008, Andy Whitcroft <apw@uk.ibm.com> (new conditions, test suite)
 # (c) 2008,2009, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>