diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
index c01dfe83..deca2c03 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST_wc = xmlcatalog_man.xml $(wildcard tutorial/*.html) \
     $(wildcard *.gif) w3c.png $(wildcard html/*.html) \
     $(wildcard html/*.png) libxml2-api.xml index.py search.php \
     apibuild.py libxml2.xsa xmllint.xml xmlcatalog_man.xml \
-    README.docs symbols.xml
+    symbols.xml
 endif
 
 # Expanded form of EXTRA_DIST_wc
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	FAQ.html \
 	Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif \
 	Libxml2-Logo-90x34.gif \
-	README.docs \
 	XMLinfo.html \
 	XSLT.html \
 	api.xsl \
diff --git a/doc/README.docs b/doc/README.docs
deleted file mode 100644
index ef30e43a..00000000
--- a/doc/README.docs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-
-                  XML toolkit from the GNOME project
-
-Full documentation is available on-line at
-    http://xmlsoft.org/
-
-This code is released under the MIT Licence see the Copyright file.
-
-To report bugs, follow the instructions at: 
-  http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html
-
-A mailing-list xml@gnome.org is available, to subscribe:
-    http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
-
-The list archive is at:
-    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/
-
-All technical answers asked privately will be automatically answered on
-the list and archived for public access unless pricacy is explicitly
-required and justified.
-
-Daniel Veillard
-
-$Id$