diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index a0dad6461d..3e402e3161 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2026.02"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_QJSON
+	bool "qjson has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  qjson was deprecated upstream and has been removed
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_OPENTRACING_CPP
 	bool "opentracing-cpp has been removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 9775c85556..f71fdc7a3a 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -3550,7 +3550,6 @@ F:	package/libusb/
 F:	package/libusb-compat/
 F:	package/proj/
 F:	package/python-iniparse/
-F:	package/qjson/
 F:	package/qt6/qt6core5compat/
 F:	package/quazip/
 F:	package/shapelib/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 857266c8f8..02f9f00ecd 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -383,7 +383,6 @@ comment "QT libraries and helper libraries"
 	source "package/grantlee/Config.in"
 	source "package/kf5/Config.in"
 	source "package/qextserialport/Config.in"
-	source "package/qjson/Config.in"
 	source "package/quazip/Config.in"
 	source "package/qwt/Config.in"
 	source "package/simple-mail/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/qjson/Config.in b/package/qjson/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index adb06cddc0..0000000000
--- a/package/qjson/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_QJSON
-	bool "qjson"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5
-	help
-	  QJson is a Qt-based library that maps JSON data to
-	  QVariant objects and vice versa.
-
-	  http://qjson.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/package/qjson/qjson.hash b/package/qjson/qjson.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index ab22350e61..0000000000
--- a/package/qjson/qjson.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# locally computed
-sha256  e812617477f3c2bb990561767a4cd8b1d3803a52018d4878da302529552610d4  qjson-0.9.0.tar.gz
-sha256  758a0cd48d2bec59cbd04ab616737b7aa0cdceac87508adbc9468715ac90722b  COPYING.lib
diff --git a/package/qjson/qjson.mk b/package/qjson/qjson.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 718d6622a8..0000000000
--- a/package/qjson/qjson.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# qjson
-#
-################################################################################
-
-QJSON_VERSION = 0.9.0
-QJSON_SITE = $(call github,flavio,qjson,$(QJSON_VERSION))
-QJSON_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
-QJSON_DEPENDENCIES = qt5base
-QJSON_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1
-QJSON_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.lib
-
-$(eval $(cmake-package))