diff --git a/scrapy/link/__init__.py b/scrapy/link/__init__.py
index 03c91737c..1844da1da 100644
--- a/scrapy/link/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/link/__init__.py
@@ -22,25 +22,3 @@ class Link(object):
     def __repr__(self):
         return '<Link url=%r text=%r >' % (self.url, self.text)
 
-
-# FIXME: code below is for backwards compatibility and should be removed before
-# the 0.7 release
-
-import warnings
-
-from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor, BaseSgmlLinkExtractor
-
-class LinkExtractor(BaseSgmlLinkExtractor):
-    
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        warnings.warn("scrapy.link.LinkExtractor is deprecated, use scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml.BaseSgmlLinkExtractor instead",
-            DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
-        BaseSgmlLinkExtractor.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
-
-class RegexLinkExtractor(SgmlLinkExtractor):
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        warnings.warn("scrapy.link.RegexLinkExtractor is deprecated, use scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml.SgmlLinkExtractor instead",
-            DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
-        SgmlLinkExtractor.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
-