diff --git a/hunspell-en.spec b/hunspell-en.spec
index 1241b30..10c71d3 100644
--- a/hunspell-en.spec
+++ b/hunspell-en.spec
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 README_en_US.txt > ../../README_en_US.txt
 %install
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell
-chmod -x *
 cp -p en_*.dic en_*.aff $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell
 cd scowl/speller
 cp -p en_*.dic en_*.aff $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/myspell