diff --git a/src/gam.spec b/src/gam.spec
index 6174dea4..2b9cec48 100644
--- a/src/gam.spec
+++ b/src/gam.spec
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ import sys
 import importlib
 from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import copy_metadata
 
-# dynamically determine where httplib2/cacerts.txt lives
-proot = os.path.dirname(importlib.import_module('httplib2').__file__)
-extra_files = [(os.path.join(proot, 'cacerts.txt'), 'httplib2')]
+extra_files = []
 
 extra_files += copy_metadata('google-api-python-client')
 extra_files += [('cbcm-v1.1beta1.json', '.')]