diff --git a/packages/devel/json-c/package.mk b/packages/devel/json-c/package.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 5380e12b60..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/json-c/package.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#      Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Roman Weber (roman@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="json-c"
-PKG_VERSION="0645020"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
-PKG_SITE="https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki"
-PKG_URL="$DISTRO_SRC/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="accessibility"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="json-c"
-PKG_LONGDESC="JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects"
-
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
-
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes \
-                           ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes \
-                           --enable-static --disable-shared \
-                           --disable-oldname-compat"
diff --git a/tools/mkpkg/mkpkg_json-c b/tools/mkpkg/mkpkg_json-c
deleted file mode 100755
index f8c8155878..0000000000
--- a/tools/mkpkg/mkpkg_json-c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-echo "getting sources..."
-  if [ ! -d json-c.git ]; then
-    git clone https://github.com/json-c/json-c.git json-c.git
-  fi
-
-  cd json-c.git
-    git pull
-    GIT_REV=`git log -n1 --format=%h`
-  cd ..
-
-echo "copying sources..."
-  rm -rf json-c-$GIT_REV
-  cp -R json-c.git json-c-$GIT_REV
-
-echo "cleaning sources..."
-  rm -rf json-c-$GIT_REV/.git
-
-echo "packing sources..."
-  tar cvJf json-c-$GIT_REV.tar.xz json-c-$GIT_REV
-
-echo "remove temporary sourcedir..."
-  rm -rf json-c-$GIT_REV