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107 files changed, 1 insertions, 118 deletions

diff --git a/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr b/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr
index ddebc6f38fd2..ab538973c56d 100644
--- a/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr
+++ b/archivers/ruby-bz2/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-BZ2 is a Ruby extension to use libbz2.
 
-Author:	Guy Decoux <ts@moulon.inra.fr>
 WWW: http://moulon.inra.fr/ruby/bz2.html
diff --git a/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr b/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr
index cc2937ede3ab..6cd75600ea2a 100644
--- a/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr
+++ b/archivers/ruby-lha/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ruby-lha is a ruby extension library that unpack files, compressed with lha.
 
-Author:	arton <artonx@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://arton.no-ip.info/collabo/backyard/?LhaLibEn
diff --git a/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr b/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr
index d4c7130da566..81917c15fae5 100644
--- a/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr
+++ b/archivers/ruby-zip/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby module or reading and writing zip files.
 
-Author:	Thomas Sondergaard <thomass@deltadata.dk>
 WWW: http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr
index a10a34da11ef..b2a8deeff91f 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-audiofile/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby-audiofile is a binding to the audiofile library, which reads
 audio (wav, au, aiff, but not ogg or mp3) and can divine information
 such as length, sample rate, etc.
 
-Author:	jared jennings <liver@soon.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-audiofile.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr
index 6bcfc727ee84..f7c8534b2da5 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-esound/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/EsounD is a Ruby binding to the EsounD library.
 
-Author:	Hiroshi Kuwagata <kgt@kokone.to>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby-esound
diff --git a/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr
index fc240fd3361d..7a90050e5c0c 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-freedb/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby/Freedb is a library that provides access to Freedb/CDDB servers
 to find some useful CD-Audio informations (CD-title, tracks titles).
 This library includes low-level functions to access CD-ROM device.
 
-Author:	Guillaume Pierronnet <moumar@rubyforge.org>
 WWW: http://ruby-freedb.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr
index 89b945da23c0..2fc849275975 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-mp3info/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This library gives you access to low level informations on mp3 files
 (bitrate, length, samplerate, etc...).  It can read, write, remove
 id3v1 tag and read id3v2.  It is written in pure ruby.
 
-Author:	Guillaume Pierronnet <moumar@netcourrier.com>
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-mp3info
diff --git a/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr
index b8d6502cb264..ec26f06339c1 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-mp3tag/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Mp3Tag is a ruby module that handles ID3v1.1 tags in MP3 files.  It
 can read ID3v1.0 and ID3v1.1 but only write ID3v1.1 tags.  It can save
 new tags and remove tags.
 
-Author:	Lars Christensen <dsl8950@vip.cybercity.dk>
 WWW: http://users.cybercity.dk/~dsl8950/ruby/mp3tag.html
diff --git a/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr
index b54cfa092172..e23c8734d73d 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-smf/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This is a "Standard MIDI File" module, which handles encoding and
 decoding SMF.  This includes a simple MML as an example of
 application.
 
-Author:	Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@funaba.org>
 WWW: http://www.funaba.org/en/ruby.html#smf
diff --git a/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr
index 194315b29122..741d4b7264c3 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-vorbisfile/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ruby-vorbisfile is a Ruby extension wrapping libvorbisfile.
 
-Author:	Rik Hemsley <rik@kde.org>
 WWW: http://rikkus.info/ruby_vorbisfile.html
diff --git a/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr b/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr
index 7a6add517702..479bdfb16a75 100644
--- a/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/ruby-xmms/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is XMMS bindings for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan (pabs) <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://www.pablotron.org/software/xmms-ruby/
diff --git a/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr b/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr
index c65e008fbcd0..537b50021bee 100644
--- a/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/rubygem-ogginfo/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ogginfo gives you access to low level information on ogg files (bitrate,
 length, samplerate, encoder, etc... ), as well as tag.
 
-Author:	Guillaume Pierronnet <guillaume.pierronnet@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-ogginfo.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr b/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr
index f0d4847cd302..a1a57f33b3fe 100644
--- a/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr
+++ b/converters/ruby-dump.rb/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 This is dump.rb, a binary data dumper module for Ruby.
 
-Author:	miche@e-mail.ne.jp
+WWW: http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/2986/
diff --git a/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr b/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr
index 0aaf45ccf85a..5f559c038d59 100644
--- a/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr
+++ b/converters/ruby-iconv/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is an iconv wrapper class for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Nobuyoshi.Nakada <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=iconv
diff --git a/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr
index eaf860165823..24deb65fcb3e 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-cdb/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This module provides Ruby interface to D. J. Bernstein's cdb (constant
 database) library.
 
-Author:	Kazuteru Okahashi <kaz@fan.gr.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=cdb
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr
index d086b161002a..ec522e130851 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_mysql/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the MySQL driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Rainer Perl <rainer.perl@sprytech.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr
index 8a440e5a864d..4e09cc2e1af4 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_odbc/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the ODBC driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr
index fd8dea413464..07de69e58599 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_pg/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the PostgreSQL driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Jim Weirich <jweirich@one.ent>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr
index 3a0e75e93401..e562f0286926 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbd_sqlite/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is the SQLite driver for DBI-for-Ruby.
 
-Author:	Rainer Perl <rainer.perl@sprytech.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr
index 12fb5ad8b633..350ac0726e9a 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-dbi/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 This is a DBI-for-Ruby.  It is designed to behave like the DBI you
 know from Perl.
 
-Author:	Rainer Perl <rainer.perl@sprytech.com>,
-	Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de>
-
 WWW: http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr
index a20711f10d6e..067df0a850c5 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-memcache/pkg-descr
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ in network-accessable memory space, and is used behind several
 high-traffic dynamic web sites like LiveJournal, Slashdot, WikiPedia,
 and others.
 
-Author:	Michael Granger <ged-raa@FaerieMUD.org>
 WWW: http://www.deveiate.org/code/Ruby-MemCache.html
diff --git a/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr
index 0ba1483a769a..13aa8ddecfde 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-msql/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby API for mSQL.
 
-Author:	DATE Ken <ge6537@i.bekkoame.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://dontstopmusic.no-ip.org/
diff --git a/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr
index 5a406013b0e9..392c155a957c 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-o_dbm/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ObjectDBM (o_dbm) is an OODB-like DBM module for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Keiju Ishitsuka <keiju@ishitsuka.com>
 WWW: 	http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=o_dbm
diff --git a/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr b/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr
index 12faa16187ec..2e335c1d5bae 100644
--- a/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/ruby-rdbc1/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ RDBC provides a unified API to access RDBMS such as PostgreSQL and
 Oracle.  The composition of RDBC is like that of JDBC.  Almost all the
 names of the classes and the methods are mimicked.
 
-Author:	NAKAMURA Akifumi <BXQ04723@nifty.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://homepage3.nifty.com/guion/SOFT/RDBC/INDEX_E.HTM
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr
index aeb9e34b9ce2..9fa24d3ad6ab 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3-ruby/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ so you can do things that would otherwise be more difficult via DBI.
 If you want portability between backends, use DBI.  If you want ease
 of use with SQLite, use this.
 
-Author:	Jamis Buck (minam) <jgb3@email.byu.edu>
 WWW: https://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby
diff --git a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr
index aeb9e34b9ce2..9fa24d3ad6ab 100644
--- a/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr
+++ b/databases/rubygem-sqlite3/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ so you can do things that would otherwise be more difficult via DBI.
 If you want portability between backends, use DBI.  If you want ease
 of use with SQLite, use this.
 
-Author:	Jamis Buck (minam) <jgb3@email.byu.edu>
 WWW: https://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby
diff --git a/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr b/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr
index 09e8cd66ed1d..41f087b1b1ee 100644
--- a/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/oniguruma/pkg-descr
@@ -11,5 +11,4 @@ ASCII, UTF-8, EUC-JP and Shift_JIS.
 
 2.x supports Ruby1.6/1.8
 
-Author:	K.Kosako <kosako@sofnec.co.jp>
 WWW: http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr
index ae7a81df16e3..391e76e1acf7 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-amstd/pkg-descr
@@ -14,5 +14,4 @@ getdep.rb: gets file dependency		to_s.rb: _name2str, _type2str
 inst.rb: helps installation		version.rb: VersionNumber class
 must.rb: must/must_have/must_be methods
 
-Author:	Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
 WWW: http://www.loveruby.net/en/amstd.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr
index 9f5672306ea9..9ee9e5496e78 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-avl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is the AVL tree class for Ruby which works like a Hash,
 implemented as a wrapper for libavl.
 
-Author:	Filip Pizlo <pizlo@purdue.edu>
 WWW: http://bocks.psych.purdue.edu/~pizman/avl/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr
index 45cd9dbba06c..081c30182de8 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-cache/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ruby/Cache is a library for caching objects based on the LRU algorithm
 for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org>
 WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/pupa/ruby-cache.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr
index e5b1b1364914..c821f9b88001 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-calendar/pkg-descr
@@ -17,5 +17,4 @@ Sdn module:
   This module supports the following calendars:
     Gregorian, Julian, French Republican, Jewish
 
-Author:	Tadayoshi Funaba <tadf@funaba.org>
 WWW: http://www.funaba.org/en/calendar.html#calendar
diff --git a/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr
index cad3482d9292..c433ee9510c0 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-dialogs/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ rubyDialogs is a simple interface to dialog(1).
 This software is distributed under the Bluesine public license, which
 is a variant of the BSD license. (See: http://bluesine.com/license/)
 
-Author:	Jeff Clement <jeff@bluesine.com>
 WWW: http://bluesine.com/archives/software/ruby/rubyDialogs/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr
index 54550bb21709..6702c4efd9cb 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-fam/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is FAM bindings for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan (pabs) <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://www.pablotron.org/software/fam-ruby/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr
index c5ea4d076926..5ce83534809d 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-fastri/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ FastRI improves on the aging RI documentation tool: much faster, needs less
 RAM, "scoped" searches, e.g. get String extensions defined in a given RubyGems
 package, fast full-text search, remote access via DRb (auto-discovered).
 
-Author:	Mauricio Julio Fernandez Pradier <mfp@acm.org>
 WWW: http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fastri
diff --git a/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr
index b092eaf92955..cc396074ed65 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-gemfinder/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Gem Finder is a simple class browser (built with Ruby/Tk) for Ruby
 modules/programs.  It allows a user to view the superclass,
 subclasses, included modules and methods of any class in the system.
 
-Author:	Jim Weirich <jweirich@one.net>
 WWW: http://onestepback.org/packages/gemfinder/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr
index 1e3e7c869735..e27f8af61289 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-intl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-intl -- A simple wrapper of GNU gettext for ruby
 
-Author:	HIRATA Naoto <hirata-naoto@sannet.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/hirata-naoto/ruby-e.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr
index 248731d4408f..69e3876fc6be 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-io-reactor/pkg-descr
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ for Concurrent and Networked Objects_. It allows a single thread to
 demultiplex and dispatch events from one or more IO objects to an
 appropriate handler.
 
-Author:	Michael Granger <ged-raa@FaerieMUD.org>
 WWW: http://www.deveiate.org/code/IO-Reactor.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr
index b66f18d9f0a9..2b055b1521a5 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-locale/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-locale -- A simple Ruby module that provides setlocale(3)
 
-Author:	Yasushi Shoji <yashi@kafka.salemstate.edu>
 WWW: http://kafka.salemstate.edu/~yashi/ruby/#locale
diff --git a/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr
index d2c87fc381fe..a19c251af300 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-locale2/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ruby-Locale is the pure ruby library which provides basic APIs for
 localization.
 
-Author:	Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highway.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-locale.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr
index b5fda6092394..bb9d269998f0 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-multi/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ and pattern matching in Ruby method definitions, choosing different
 method bodies depending on the types and values of the parameters
 the method is invoked with.
 
-Author:	Topher Cyll <christophercyll@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://multi.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr
index 007e4be84802..dfaab4d63b2a 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-property/pkg-descr
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@ This library, developed after java.util.Properties class of Java
 Language, provides simple properties scheme for application
 configurations, resources, locale data, etc.
 
-Author:	Hiroshi IGARASHI <igarashi@ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp>
diff --git a/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr
index 4c68a588564a..16a3eee61840 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-racc/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Racc is an LALR(1) parser generator for Ruby.  It is written in Ruby
 and generates Ruby code.  Almost all functions of yacc(1) is
 implemented.
 
-Author:	Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
 WWW: http://i.loveruby.net/en/racc.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr
index 23ffb8177357..ef2a59a13ae1 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-rbison/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ file.  rbison uses Bison to do all the hard work (generating state
 transition tables, etc), then translates the Bison-generated C code
 into Ruby code.
 
-Author:	Jonathan Aseltine <aseltine@cs.umass.edu>
 WWW: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~aseltine/rbison.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr
index e1b1794e91e7..df8e9d58dc6b 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-robjectteam/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ implemented as roles and are weaved into domain classes via a
 connector at runtime (runtime weaving).  These aspects can be
 explicitly activated and deactivated.
 
-Author:	Matthias Veit <matthias_veit@yahoo.de>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/robjectteam/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr
index b2837b98d835..0297c7db6639 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-rreadline/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 RReadline is a pure Ruby implementation of the Readline library.
 
-Author:	KUBO Hiroya <hiroya@netcom.mag.keio.ac.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby_readline
diff --git a/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr
index 90bd4f907473..dd5ac60bc412 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-setup.rb/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Setup.rb is a common installer script for ruby packages.  It can
 handle multiple binaries, libraries, extensions etc. in one archive.
 
-Author:	Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net>
 WWW: http://www.loveruby.net/en/setup.html
diff --git a/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr
index 17621d98658f..0338efaf8df0 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-sexp/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ S-Expression is a pure Ruby library to parse strings
 of Lisp style s-expressions into native Ruby style
 s-expressions and back again.
 
-Author:	Topher Cyll <christophercyll@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://sexp.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr
index 61f3c51691c5..60a77b54843b 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-slang/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ This is an extension module for S-Lang screen management library by
 John E. Davis.  S-Lang is famous for the fact that jed (editor) and
 slrn (news reader) use it.
 
-Author:	Kikutani, Makoto <kikutani@debian.or.jp>
 WWW: http://www.s-lang.org/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr
index 844c3780b907..91c4ec5f5ae8 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-tzfile/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ Ruby/TZFile is a TZFile handling library for Ruby.
 It generates classes like Time class for timezones other than
 localtime nor UTC.
 
-Author:	Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
 WWW: http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/ruby-tzfile/
diff --git a/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr b/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr
index 77abd74d43e8..95bf06e2c1f5 100644
--- a/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ruby-wirble/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ package.  Specifically, Wirble adds a saved history, a couple of useful
 shortcuts, and color to Irb.  Wirble also enables a Irb's built-in
 tab-completion and a simpler prompt.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr
index c5ea4d076926..5ce83534809d 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/rubygem-fastri/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ FastRI improves on the aging RI documentation tool: much faster, needs less
 RAM, "scoped" searches, e.g. get String extensions defined in a given RubyGems
 package, fast full-text search, remote access via DRb (auto-discovered).
 
-Author:	Mauricio Julio Fernandez Pradier <mfp@acm.org>
 WWW: http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fastri
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr
index 352a584a67f3..e59b725970f0 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/rubygem-slop/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Slop is a simple option parser with an easy to remember syntax and friendly API.
 
-Author:	Lee Jarvis <lee _at_ jarvis.co>
 WWW: http://rubygems.org/gems/slop
diff --git a/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr b/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr
index 857c38bc2937..32e73271b19c 100644
--- a/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr
+++ b/games/ruby-exmars/pkg-descr
@@ -18,5 +18,4 @@ The resulting program has the following main features:
 
 NOTE: This is only Ruby interface part. To install exmars use games/exmars port.
 
-Author: Martin Ankerl
 WWW: http://corewar.co.uk/ankerl/exmars.htm
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr
index 0ee5622cdc2f..ab1f7e68c42a 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-image_size/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby library to measure the size of a given image file.
 
-Author:	Keisuke Minami <keisuke@rccn.com>
 WWW: http://www.rubycgi.org/tools/index.en.htm
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr
index da900257b9b8..658ed3318269 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-imlib2/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is Imlib2 bindings for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Paul Duncan (pabs) <pabs@pablotron.org>
 WWW: http://www.pablotron.org/software/imlib2-ruby/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr
index 5b537adfe820..3feb92231589 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-opengl/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is OpenGL/GLU/GLUT interface modules for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Yoshiyuki Kusano <yoshi@giganet.net>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=opengl
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr
index 18ce0016515c..4eca94c8c49f 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-pgplot/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is a Ruby interface to PGPLOT graphics library, which generates
 X-Y plot, contour/image/vector maps, etc. .
 
-Author: Masahiro TANAKA <masa@ir.isas.ac.jp>
 WWW: http://pgplot.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr
index 31d5f6100b2c..10826e3f554a 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-rmagick/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ RMagick is a binding for ImageMagick.  Defines approx. 120 methods for
 2D image manipulation.  HTML documentation contains usage guide and
 API reference, including 116 complete example programs and images.
 
-Author:	Tim Hunter <cyclists@nc.rr.com>
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr
index c3ef8f63f343..ee6c32b04c8d 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-svg/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby library for generating SVG files.
 
-Author: Yuya <yuya@4th.to>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ruby-svg/
diff --git a/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr b/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr
index 921886ae5018..e25ff2ee138f 100644
--- a/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/ruby-tgif/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/Tgif is a Ruby extension library to draw Tgif graphics.
 
-Author:	Noritsugu Nakamura <nnakamur@mxq.mesh.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~Nori/ruby/
diff --git a/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr b/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr
index 14d21da2647d..eb74e046b390 100644
--- a/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr
+++ b/irc/ruby-rica/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 RICA is Ruby Internet relay chat Core Agents, an IRC client framework
 for Ruby.
 
-Author:	zophos@koka-in.org
 WWW: http://www.koka-in.org/~zophos/SideA/lsnt/rica.html
diff --git a/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr b/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr
index 7b90b97ebeb8..95e5fd409e5f 100644
--- a/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr
+++ b/irc/ruby-rice/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 RICE is Ruby Irc interfaCE, an IRC interface library for Ruby.
 
-Author:	akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=rice
diff --git a/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr b/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr
index b62529f5ae33..3b726ceba285 100644
--- a/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/rbnamazu/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ in Ruby.
 
 With this, you can do a Namazu search from a Ruby script.
 
-Author:	Ryunosuke Ohshima <ryu@jaist.ac.jp>
 WWW: http://www.namazu.org/ruby-namazu/index.html.en
diff --git a/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr b/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr
index 325e80364a01..0968be18c0d4 100644
--- a/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/rskkserv/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 rskkserv is an alternative implementation of skkserv written in Ruby.
 
-
-Author:	Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org>,
-	YAMASHITA Junji <ysjj@unixuser.org> (current maintainer)
-
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=rskkserv
diff --git a/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr b/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr
index 34ef7cd74660..3a4303a46d02 100644
--- a/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/ruby-chasen/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/ChaSen -- ChaSen module for Ruby.
 
-Author:	IKARASHI Akira <ikarashi@d3.dion.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby-chasen
diff --git a/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr b/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr
index c106ee98498e..be05b8a068b3 100644
--- a/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/ruby-gyokuro/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby library which wraps Ruby/ChaSen.
 
-Author: Yuya <yuya@4th.to>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/gyokuro/
diff --git a/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr b/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
index 465672364f65..365d08c93482 100644
--- a/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
+++ b/japanese/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ object-oriented programming.  It has many features to process text
 files and to do system management tasks.  This package contains
 Japanese version of the Ruby users guide in HTML format.
 
-Author:	Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
diff --git a/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr
index ec5c75e01cd3..52724a4d0953 100644
--- a/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib/pkg-descr
@@ -12,5 +12,4 @@ stdlib-doc is a RubyForge project that converts Ruby source code into this
 documentation you are looking at.
 It also tracks the status of the documentation effort.
 
-Author:	James G. Britt <j.g.britt@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/
diff --git a/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr
index ce213b56a660..274d72736e58 100644
--- a/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby-lua4/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ Ruby-Lua -- an embebed scripting language for ruby programs
 This is a first attempt to make Lua script language as a class for
 ruby, it's very basic right now.
 
-Author:	Domingo Alvarez <domingo@dad-it.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-lua.unolotiene.com/
diff --git a/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
index 63dcb5979fb1..1553520f5940 100644
--- a/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby-usersguide/pkg-descr
@@ -3,9 +3,4 @@ object-oriented programming.  It has many features to process text
 files and to do system management tasks.  This package contains the
 Ruby users guide in HTML format.
 
-Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp> (Japanese version)
-	GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> (Initial translation)
-	Julian Fondren (ditto)
-	Mark Slagell <slagell@cs.iastate.edu> (Retranslation)
-
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
diff --git a/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr
index f647b45acef2..63977179b7ac 100644
--- a/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby18/pkg-descr
@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ Features of Ruby are shown below.
   + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
     Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
 
-Author:	Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@zetabits.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
diff --git a/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr
index f647b45acef2..63977179b7ac 100644
--- a/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby19/pkg-descr
@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ Features of Ruby are shown below.
   + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
     Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
 
-Author:	Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@zetabits.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
diff --git a/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr b/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr
index f647b45acef2..63977179b7ac 100644
--- a/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/ruby20/pkg-descr
@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ Features of Ruby are shown below.
   + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
     Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
 
-Author:	Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@zetabits.com>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
diff --git a/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr b/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr
index 3d8d2d3a7bf1..33a557cc190d 100644
--- a/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr
+++ b/mail/ruby-rfilter/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ RubyFilter is a set of Ruby classes built on top of the RubyMail
 library that make it easy to write programs that filter and deliver
 email to mailboxes.
 
-Author:	Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
 WWW: http://www.lickey.com/rubyfilter/
diff --git a/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr b/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr
index 34c0f640127f..57dfbe230a46 100644
--- a/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr
+++ b/mail/ruby-rmail/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is RubyMail, a lightweight mail library containing various mail
 utility classes and modules.
 
-Author:	Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
 WWW: http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/
diff --git a/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr b/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr
index 339647f2a475..93c2db26df8c 100644
--- a/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/ruby-gnuplot/pkg-descr
@@ -20,5 +20,4 @@ same principle.  Here's an example usage of Ruby/Gnuplot:
 
 	plot.draw ( ds )
 
-Author:	Gordon Miller <gmiller@bittwiddlers.com>
 WWW: http://physci.gmu.edu/~gmiller/gnuplot/
diff --git a/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr b/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr
index 02007d5ff6f6..f786e0f56de8 100644
--- a/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/ruby-narray/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 NArray is an Numerical N-dimensional Array class. Supported element types are 1/2/4-byte Integer, single/double-precision Real/Complex, and Ruby Object. This extension library incorporates fast calculation and easy manipulation of large numerical arrays into the Ruby language. NArray has features similar to NumPy, but NArray has vector and matrix subclasses.
 
-Author:	Masahiro TANAKA <masa16.tanaka @nospam@ gmail.com>
 WWW: http://narray.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr
index f30973670cf8..95daba31832f 100644
--- a/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-icmp/pkg-descr
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ This is a Ruby module for handling ICMP packets.
 
 Note that it requires root permission to handle any ICMP packets.
 
-Author:	GOTOU YUUZOU <gotoyuzo@notwork.org>
diff --git a/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr
index 31a3ffd1f627..ab167659dd7f 100644
--- a/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-ldap/pkg-descr
@@ -3,7 +3,4 @@ based on RFC1823.
 
 Supported LDAP libraries are OpenLDAP, Michigan LDAP, and NetscapeSDK.
 
-Author:	Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@users.sourceforge.net>
-Author: Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
-Author: Alexey Chebotar <alexey.chebotar@gmail.com>
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-ldap/
diff --git a/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr
index 364d2d2ccbf2..c0cc36fe8add 100644
--- a/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-tcpsocketpipe/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is Ruby/TCPSocketPipe, a Ruby library to create I/O pipes for TCP
 socket tunneling.
 
-Author:	NaHi (NAKAMURA, Hiroshi) <nahi@keynauts.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/tcpsocketpipe
diff --git a/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr b/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr
index 06eb33833f03..c245048ae453 100644
--- a/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/ruby-tserver/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 TServer is a Ruby library for writing a preforking server like Apache.
 
-Author:	TOMITA Masahiro <tommy@tmtm.org>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/tserver
diff --git a/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr b/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr
index 05f51943b031..bfe7b81024ed 100644
--- a/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr
+++ b/print/ruby-panda/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Ruby/Panda is a Ruby extension library to access Panda, a GPL'ed
 library for dynamically generating PDF files.
 
-Author:	Noritsugu Nakamura <nnakamur@mxq.mesh.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~Nori/ruby/
diff --git a/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr
index c6d1887bc826..aa29f6d80243 100644
--- a/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-gpgme/pkg-descr
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ Ruby-GPGME is a ruby interface to GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME).
 - The high-level API provides a convenient class-based interface to
   frequently used GPGME functions.
 
-Author:	Daiki Ueno
 WWW: http://ruby-gpgme.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr
index 0e3eba49504a..3204628b4c59 100644
--- a/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-hmac/pkg-descr
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ standard is documented in RFC2104.  Namely, a MAC provides a way to
 check the integrity of information transmitted over or stored in an
 unreliable medium, based on a secret key.
 
-Author:	Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
 WWW: http://deisui.org/~ueno/ruby/hmac.html
diff --git a/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr
index e5034430347f..7a0dcc1236ca 100644
--- a/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-password/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby/Password comprises a set of useful methods for creating,
 verifying and manipulating passwords.  It includes an interface to
 CrackLib, a library commonly used for checking password strength.
 
-Author:	Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 WWW: http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-password.shtml
diff --git a/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr b/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr
index ce1422751e7f..49d9d34188ab 100644
--- a/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/ruby-tcpwrap/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 ruby-tcpwrap -- TCP wrappers library for Ruby.
 
-Author:	Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=ruby-tcpwrap
diff --git a/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr b/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr
index 0e3eba49504a..3204628b4c59 100644
--- a/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr
+++ b/security/rubygem-hmac/pkg-descr
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ standard is documented in RFC2104.  Namely, a MAC provides a way to
 check the integrity of information transmitted over or stored in an
 unreliable medium, based on a secret key.
 
-Author:	Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
 WWW: http://deisui.org/~ueno/ruby/hmac.html
diff --git a/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr b/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr
index 161710334bd2..68e5febdc048 100644
--- a/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr
+++ b/sysutils/ruby-quota/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby-quota is a ruby library to manipulate filesystem quotas.
 
-Author:	Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@users.sourceforge.net>
 WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ruby-quota/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr
index 61b4e509d1b9..5dba61c593b3 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-amatch/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ This is a Ruby library for approximate string matching and searching
 using a dynamic programming algorithm to compute the Levenstein
 distance between strings.  Written in C for speed.
 
-Author:	Florian Frank <flori@ping.de>
 WWW: http://amatch.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr
index bb653cf43c90..ebfe17facd45 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-amrita/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 amrita is an HTML/XHTML template library for Ruby.
 It makes html documents from a template and a model data.
 
-Author:	Taku Nakajima <tnakajima@brain-tokyo.jp>
 WWW: http://amrita.sourceforge.jp/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr
index 82e8b1488058..b95c04af6195 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-format/pkg-descr
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ Class Format in module FormatR provides Perl like formats for Ruby.
 These are used to create output with a similar format but with
 changing values.
 
-Author:	Paul Rubel <rubel@crhc.uiuc.edu>
 WWW: http://formatr.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr
index cc36235673fb..2a278d90a0aa 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-html-fillinform/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 HTML/FillInForm is a Ruby library that automatically inserts form data
 into HTML.
 
-Author:	IKEBE Tomohiro <ikebe@shebang.jp>
 WWW: http://shebang.jp/src/ruby/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr
index 31f329f806c4..526af7d055c2 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-html-template/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 HTML/Template is a Ruby library to use HTML as a template file from
 CGI scripts.
 
-Author:	IKEBE Tomohiro <ikebe@shebang.jp>
 WWW: http://shebang.jp/src/ruby/
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr
index a4a8863437d1..050a2789f049 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-htmlrepair/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ HTML document.
 It is used with htmlsplit.rb and adds a method "repair" to the
 HTMLSplit class.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf-ruby@moonwolf.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/htmlrepair
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr
index e5e20b580754..31a40258cf9f 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-htmlsplit/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is htmlsplit.rb, a Ruby library to split an HTML document into an
 array of tags and contents.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf-ruby@moonwolf.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/htmlsplit
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr
index 7ebfb83dc6f7..3f280b4da528 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-mwdom/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is Ruby/MWDOM, DOM level2 module, XMLWriter and XHTMLWriter for
 Ruby.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf-ruby@moonwolf.com>
 WWW: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/mwdom
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr
index af8defe2ef83..2e7c0e148eae 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-rss.alt/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ This library contains a sample that expand [RAA:RWiki].
 * collect RSS 1.0s and display those items sorted by updating time.
 * collect RSSs and display those items on each page.
 
-Author:	kou <kou@cozmixng.org>
 WWW: http://www.cozmixng.org/~rwiki/index.rb?cmd=view;name=RSS+Parser
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr
index 6a411f047191..449f7ca9bf58 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-rss/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 This is a Ruby library for parsing, creating, downloading, and caching
 RSS (http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html).
 
-Author:	Chad Fowler <cfowler@chadfowler.com>
 WWW: http://www.chadfowler.com/index.cgi?mode=max&cat=ruby
diff --git a/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr b/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr
index 9ce9c1884efa..3403787acfa3 100644
--- a/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/ruby-xmlparser/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 This is a Ruby module to access James Clark's XML Parser ToolKit. ("expat")
 
-Author:	Yoshida Masato <yoshidam@yoshidam.net>
 WWW: http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#xmlparser
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr b/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr
index cd9f97223012..d1e90862b66d 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-htmltools/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Ruby-htmltools tools for parsing and manipulating HTML text in Ruby.
 It can be used for programmatically access outside HTML-pages.
 I hope to extend it to become a web-publishing framework in the future.
 
-Author: Johannes Brodwall <johannes@brodwall.com>
 WWW: http://ruby-htmltools.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr b/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr
index d9e8176d88e2..c4b8dd70ac97 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-sanitize/pkg-descr
@@ -8,5 +8,4 @@ and even certain URL protocols within attributes that contain URLs.
 Any HTML elements or attributes that you don't explicitly allow
 will be removed.
 
-Author: Ryan Grove
 WWW: http://wonko.com/post/sanitize
diff --git a/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr
index 571135fc4532..feabf8e31540 100644
--- a/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-amazon/pkg-descr
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ Services.  It aims to wrap the grunt work of interacting with the
 Amazon API behind a high-level layer of Ruby and, in so doing, make it
 easier to use.
 
-Author:	Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 WWW: http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
diff --git a/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr
index fe5df8d7e19b..509d5c30caaa 100644
--- a/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-borges/pkg-descr
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ Borges is a web application framework based on Seaside 2.0
 (http://beta4.com/seaside2/) that allows linear programming of
 web applications.
 
-Author:	Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
 WWW: http://borges.rubyforge.org/
diff --git a/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr
index 5ca4b607e885..cdabd6bd084a 100644
--- a/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-div/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Div is a web application server using dRuby and ERB2.
 You can write web applications like GUI programming.
 
-Author:	Masatoshi SEKI <m_seki@mva.biglobe.ne.jp>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=div
diff --git a/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr
index 15a344a14ecc..b9f81f589362 100644
--- a/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-fcgi/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 Ruby/fcgi is the FastCGI library for Ruby.
 
-Author:	MoonWolf <moonwolf@moonwolf.com>, et al.
 WWW: http://rubyforge.org/projects/fcgi/
diff --git a/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr b/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr
index 3b7b8346a3c8..2955edd8b85f 100644
--- a/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr
+++ b/www/ruby-google/pkg-descr
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ the API more accessible for everyday use.
 
 Demonstration programs are included in the archive.
 
-Author:	Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 WWW: http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
diff --git a/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr b/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr
index bd4d4f59f976..c57cfe8fd8a0 100644
--- a/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr
+++ b/x11/ruby-X11/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 RubyX11 is a fully reflective X11 client library.
 
-Author:	matju (Mathieu Bouchard) <matju@sympatico.ca>
 WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=rubyx11