diff --git a/webdav/webdav.go b/webdav/webdav.go
index df6ef45..65952d7 100644
--- a/webdav/webdav.go
+++ b/webdav/webdav.go
@@ -9,35 +9,14 @@
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
-	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
 	"path"
-	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
 
-// Package webdav's XML output requires the standard library's encoding/xml
-// package version 1.5 or greater. Otherwise, it will produce malformed XML.
-//
-// As of May 2015, the Go stable release is version 1.4, so we print a message
-// to let users know that this golang.org/x/etc package won't work yet.
-//
-// This package also won't work with Go 1.3 and earlier, but making this
-// runtime version check catch all the earlier versions too, and not just
-// "1.4.x", isn't worth the complexity.
-//
-// TODO: delete this check at some point after Go 1.5 is released.
-var go1Dot4 = strings.HasPrefix(runtime.Version(), "go1.4.")
-
-func init() {
-	if go1Dot4 {
-		log.Println("package webdav requires Go version 1.5 or greater")
-	}
-}
-
 type Handler struct {
 	// Prefix is the URL path prefix to strip from WebDAV resource paths.
 	Prefix string
diff --git a/webdav/xml_test.go b/webdav/xml_test.go
index bc5641f..f38504e 100644
--- a/webdav/xml_test.go
+++ b/webdav/xml_test.go
@@ -348,10 +348,6 @@
 }
 
 func TestMultistatusWriter(t *testing.T) {
-	if go1Dot4 {
-		t.Skip("TestMultistatusWriter requires Go version 1.5 or greater")
-	}
-
 	///The "section x.y.z" test cases come from section x.y.z of the spec at
 	// http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc4918.html
 	testCases := []struct {