diff --git a/hunspell-is.spec b/hunspell-is.spec
index 322cbb9..5a12185 100644
--- a/hunspell-is.spec
+++ b/hunspell-is.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ Icelandic hunspell dictionaries.
 %setup -q -c -n hunspell-is
 
 %build
-chmod -x *
 for i in LICENSE_en_US.txt; do
   if ! iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -o /dev/null $i > /dev/null 2>&1; then
     iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 $i > $i.new