diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ff8961688..5a20fc0e6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,4 +22,3 @@ keystoneauth1>=3.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 # TODO(amotoki): Drop this after osc.utils has no dependency on keystoneclient
 python-keystoneclient>=3.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests>=2.14.2 # Apache-2.0
-simplejson>=3.5.1 # MIT