diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index f125bd2d..212b29d2 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ Unreleased
 * qbsp: include clip brushes when calculating bmodel bounding box
 * qbsp: enable creation of clip-only bmodels
 * light: implemented self shadowing and full shadows for brush models
-* light: removed the "-nominlimit" option (now the default behaviour)
-* light: remove support for negative color components (never worked properly)
 * light: implemented the "-soft" command line option
+* light: remove support for negative color components (never worked properly)
+* light: removed the "-nominlimit" option (now the default behaviour)
+* light: removed the "-compress" option (a bad idea from long ago)
 * vis: changed the default testlevel to 4
 
 2013-03-07 TyrUtils v0.6
diff --git a/include/light/light.h b/include/light/light.h
index 2c277d64..710d66c2 100644
--- a/include/light/light.h
+++ b/include/light/light.h
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ extern byte *filebase;
 extern byte *lit_filebase;
 
 extern int oversample;
-extern qboolean compress_ents;
 extern qboolean colored;
 extern qboolean litfile;
 
diff --git a/light/entities.c b/light/entities.c
index f34e6aee..1c371fdc 100644
--- a/light/entities.c
+++ b/light/entities.c
@@ -455,20 +455,9 @@ WriteEntitiesToString(void)
 	end += 2;
 
 	for (ep = entities[i].epairs; ep; ep = ep->next) {
-	    if (compress_ents && !strncmp(entities[i].classname, "light", 5)) {
-		if (!strcmp(ep->key, "classname") ||
-		    !strcmp(ep->key, "origin") ||
-		    !strcmp(ep->key, "targetname") ||
-		    !strcmp(ep->key, "spawnflags")) {
-		    sprintf(line, "\"%s\" \"%s\"\n", ep->key, ep->value);
-		    strcat(end, line);
-		    end += strlen(line);
-		}
-	    } else {
-		sprintf(line, "\"%s\" \"%s\"\n", ep->key, ep->value);
-		strcat(end, line);
-		end += strlen(line);
-	    }
+	    sprintf(line, "\"%s\" \"%s\"\n", ep->key, ep->value);
+	    strcat(end, line);
+	    end += strlen(line);
 	}
 	strcat(end, "}\n");
 	end += 2;
diff --git a/light/light.c b/light/light.c
index 5fa3e157..a217c9fe 100644
--- a/light/light.c
+++ b/light/light.c
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ static modelinfo_t *modelinfo;
 const dmodel_t *const *tracelist;
 
 int oversample = 1;
-qboolean compress_ents;
 qboolean colored;
 
 void
@@ -243,9 +242,6 @@ main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	    fadegate = atof(argv[++i]);
 	} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-light")) {
 	    minlight.light = atof(argv[++i]);
-	} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-compress")) {
-	    compress_ents = true;
-	    logprint("light entity compression enabled\n");
 	} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-lit")) {
 	    colored = true;
 	} else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-soft")) {
@@ -262,7 +258,7 @@ main(int argc, const char **argv)
     if (i != argc - 1) {
 	printf("usage: light [-threads num] [-light num] [-extra|-extra4]\n"
 	       "             [-dist n] [-range n] [-gate n] [-lit]\n"
-	       "             [-soft [n]] [-compress] bspfile\n");
+	       "             [-soft [n]] bspfile\n");
 	exit(1);
     }