diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 18eb2c7..543d720 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <artifactId>jndn-mock</artifactId>
   <version>0.9.2</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <description>Tools for testing NDN Java code without using network IO</description>
+  <description>Tools for testing NDN Java code without using network IO.</description>
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
@@ -17,16 +17,6 @@
       <artifactId>jndn</artifactId>
       <version>RELEASE</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>2.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-      <version>2.1</version>
-    </dependency>
     <!-- Test dependencies -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>