diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3b1a800..a8fb7f6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -119,8 +119,7 @@ if(APPLE)
                 COMMAND echo "Running qt magic macos deploy script"
                 COMMAND "${qt_dir}/macdeployqt" LokinetGUI.app -always-overwrite -qmldir=${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/res
                 COMMAND echo "Signing LokinetGUI.app and everything inside it"
-                COMMAND codesign -s "${MACOS_SIGN}" --deep --strict --options runtime
-                    --entitlements ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/lokinet-gui-entitlements.plist --force -vvv LokinetGUI.app
+                COMMAND codesign -s "${MACOS_SIGN}" --deep --strict --options runtime --force -vvv LokinetGUI.app
                 )
         else()
             add_custom_command(TARGET lokinet-gui
diff --git a/tools/lokinet-gui-entitlements.plist b/tools/lokinet-gui-entitlements.plist
deleted file mode 100644
index c318596..0000000
--- a/tools/lokinet-gui-entitlements.plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
-<plist version="1.0">
-<dict>
-    <!-- apparently needed by some parts of Qt as of 5.14.2; Qt 5.15 is rumoured to improve things
-         w.r.t. notarization and signing so possibly revisit this. -->
-    <key>com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation</key>
-    <true/>
-</dict>
-</plist>