diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 41f1fce..250f927 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ matplotlib-1.0.0-without-gpc.tar.gz
 /matplotlib-2.0.0b4.tar.gz
 /matplotlib-2.0.0rc2.tar.gz
 /matplotlib-2.0.0.tar.gz
+/matplotlib-2.0.0-without-copyrighted.tar.xz
diff --git a/python-matplotlib.spec b/python-matplotlib.spec
index 1932df7..f091534 100644
--- a/python-matplotlib.spec
+++ b/python-matplotlib.spec
@@ -55,13 +55,14 @@
 
 Name:           python-matplotlib
 Version:        2.0.0
-Release:        2%{?rctag:.%{rctag}}%{?dist}.1
+Release:        2%{?rctag:.%{rctag}}%{?dist}.2
 Summary:        Python 2D plotting library
 Group:          Development/Libraries
 # qt4_editor backend is MIT
 License:        Python and MIT
 URL:            http://matplotlib.org
-Source0:        https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archive/v%{version}%{?rctag}.tar.gz#/matplotlib-%{version}%{?rctag}.tar.gz
+#Source0:        https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archive/v%{version}%{?rctag}.tar.gz#/matplotlib-%{version}%{?rctag}.tar.gz
+Source0:        matplotlib-%{version}-without-copyrighted.tar.xz
 Source1:        setup.cfg
 
 Patch2:         20_matplotlibrc_path_search_fix.patch
@@ -620,6 +621,9 @@ PYTHONPATH=%{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch} \
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar 06 2017 Thomas Spura <tomspur@fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.0-2.2
+- Remove copyrighted file from tarball (gh-8034)
+
 * Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.0-2.1
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/remove-files.sh b/remove-files.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c7a6624
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remove-files.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+version=$1
+
+[ -z $version ] && exit 1
+
+dir=matplotlib-${version}
+file=matplotlib-${version}.tar.gz
+result=matplotlib-${version}-without-copyrighted.tar.xz
+
+test -f $file || exit 1
+
+rm -rf matplotlib-${version}
+tar xzf $file
+
+# https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/8034
+rm -vr matplotlib-${version}/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/sample_data/necked_tensile_specimen.png
+rm -vr matplotlib-${version}/examples/images_contours_and_fields/interpolation_none_vs_nearest.py
+
+rm -f $result
+tar cJf $result $dir
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 4fc5a86..390ce37 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (matplotlib-2.0.0.tar.gz) = b0e6d91aee5f91e0155c9e6716eef1a7e1fb907daeb93d603709142b749878fd758e42fe3707ac73c3d87959c6a35126c9e17c08ef78c5734106fafdf198f304
+SHA512 (matplotlib-2.0.0-without-copyrighted.tar.xz) = 6413b0187b3d7ce5e4cbfaf7de4f42a747f1a415dbe3dca71c5f0ff0b8ac7139dc2807302bfbc67428281cfc7744cc23c6bbda041cd0568eff71801a740b862d