diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a3495f3..c9785eb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/protobuf"]
 	path = third_party/protobuf
 	url = https://github.com/google/protobuf.git
-[submodule "third_party/protobuf-c"]
-	path = third_party/protobuf-c
-	url = https://github.com/shadansari/protobuf-c.git
 [submodule "third_party/grpc-c"]
 	path = third_party/grpc-c
 	url = https://github.com/Juniper/grpc-c.git
diff --git a/third_party/protobuf-c b/third_party/protobuf-c
deleted file mode 160000
index cad32ff..0000000
--- a/third_party/protobuf-c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit cad32ff50ef88976cbab90491c6f7f4511c7c7ab