diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 7809a710212..d4cf114e40b 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ recursive-include codespell_lib *.py
 include codespell_lib/data/dictionary*.txt
 include codespell_lib/data/linux-kernel.exclude
 include COPYING
-include bin/codespell
 exclude *.yml *.yaml
 exclude .coveragerc
 exclude .git-blame-ignore-revs
diff --git a/bin/codespell b/bin/codespell
deleted file mode 100755
index b08fff12ac0..00000000000
--- a/bin/codespell
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-import sys
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    import codespell_lib
-    sys.exit(codespell_lib.main(*sys.argv[1:]))