diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b79e76..82cdf0a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ Currently, this layer is still under continuous development.
   recipes relying on opencv need to activate the DISTRO\_FEATURE
   opengl.
 
+  rosbridge-library depends on python-six, which is provided in meta-python
+  since a36869c700bed940f7f0aa4b9703ae630dc84eac@meta-openembedded.
+
 ## INSTALLATION ##
 
   The repository contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/python-six_1.10.0.bb b/recipes-devtools/python/python-six_1.10.0.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index feefdf0..0000000
--- a/recipes-devtools/python/python-six_1.10.0.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Six is a Python 2 and 3 compatibility library. It provides \
-  utility functions for smoothing over the differences between the Python \
-  versions with the goal of writing Python code that is compatible on both \
-  Python versions."
-SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=6f00d4a50713fa859858dd9abaa35b21"
-
-SRC_URI = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/six/six-${PV}.tar.gz;downloadfilename=six-{PV}.tar.gz"
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "34eed507548117b2ab523ab14b2f8b55"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "105f8d68616f8248e24bf0e9372ef04d3cc10104f1980f54d57b2ce73a5ad56a"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/six-${PV}"
-
-inherit setuptools