diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/audit.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/audit.rb
index 721f6c9873..509cef8303 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/audit.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/audit.rb
@@ -216,10 +216,6 @@ class FormulaAuditor
     # the rest of the checks apply to mirrors as well
     urls.concat(@specs.map(&:mirrors).flatten)
 
-    urls.grep(%r[^(https?|ftp)://ftp\.gnome]) do |u|
-      problem %{download.gnome.org is preferred for GNOME software (url is #{u}).}
-    end
-
     # Check SourceForge urls
     urls.each do |p|
       # Skip if the URL looks like a SVN repo