diff --git a/zfec/setup.py b/zfec/setup.py
index 78408cf69..5eafd5ab0 100644
--- a/zfec/setup.py
+++ b/zfec/setup.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ trove_classifiers=[
 
 setup(name='zfec',
       version='1.0.0a3',
-      summary='a fast C implementation of Reed-Solomon erasure coding with command-line, C, and Python interfaces',
+      summary='a fast erasure code with command-line, C, and Python interfaces',
       description='Fast, portable, programmable erasure coding a.k.a. "forward error correction": the generation of redundant blocks of information such that if some blocks are lost then the original data can be recovered from the remaining blocks.',
       author='Zooko O\'Whielacronx',
       author_email='zooko@zooko.com',