diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 17e35cb..bad5762 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "fuzzing/libEpollFuzzer"]
 	path = fuzzing/libEpollFuzzer
 	url = https://github.com/uNetworking/libEpollFuzzer
-[submodule "libdeflate"]
-	path = libdeflate
-	url = https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
 [submodule "fuzzing/seed-corpus"]
 	path = fuzzing/seed-corpus
 	url = https://github.com/uNetworking/seed-corpus.git
diff --git a/libdeflate b/libdeflate
deleted file mode 160000
index 4d3c0f0..0000000
--- a/libdeflate
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 4d3c0f00d55c3bfd7abe3f7ac3d99e3bd0f7f96b