diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 45323abef..000000000
--- a/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-raise Exception(
-    "You imported 'sglang' from the git repo root directory 'sglang', which is incorrect. You should import it from 'sglang/python/sglang'. Please do not run your scripts adjacent to the git repo root directory."
-)