diff --git a/contrib/ChangeLog b/contrib/ChangeLog
index 7068525a706..04130f13494 100644
--- a/contrib/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2017-01-08  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
+
+	* download_ecj: Remove.
 
 2017-01-05  Martin Liska  <mliska@suse.cz>
 
diff --git a/contrib/download_ecj b/contrib/download_ecj
deleted file mode 100755
index 5043f940789..00000000000
--- a/contrib/download_ecj
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-
-#
-# Download the ecj jar file needed by gcj.
-# Run this from the top level of the gcc source tree and the libjava
-# build will do the right thing.
-#
-# (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation
-#
-# This script is Free Software, and it can be copied, distributed and
-# modified as defined in the GNU General Public License.  A copy of
-# its license can be downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-#
-
-ftp -n sourceware.org << EOF
-verbose
-hash
-user ftp ''
-cd /pub/java
-binary
-get ecj-latest.jar
-EOF
-
-mv ecj-latest.jar ecj.jar
-