diff --git a/distribution/licenses-common/download-license-files.sh b/distribution/licenses-common/download-license-files.sh
index 23ce87f..c15a85e 100755
--- a/distribution/licenses-common/download-license-files.sh
+++ b/distribution/licenses-common/download-license-files.sh
@@ -61,30 +61,4 @@ echo "==> Normalizing license line endings" >&2
find "$output_dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs --no-run-if-empty -0 dos2unix
-echo "==> Symlinking identical files" >&2
-
-hashtemp="$(mktemp)"
-trap "rm '$hashtemp'" EXIT
-
-cd "$output_dir"
-find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.txt' -print0 | LC_ALL=C sort -z | xargs --no-run-if-empty -0 sha256sum | sed 's, \./,,' > "$hashtemp"
-
-declare -A processed_hashes
-
-while IFS=" " read -r -d $'\n' hash filename
-do
- if ! [ -v processed_hashes["$hash"] ]
- then
- echo "$filename" >&2
- grep -F "$hash " "$hashtemp" | grep -vxF "$hash $filename" | \
- while IFS=" " read -r -d $'\n' dup_hash dup_filename
- do
- echo " -> $dup_filename" >&2
- rm "$dup_filename"
- ln -s "$filename" "$dup_filename"
- done
- processed_hashes["$hash"]="$filename"
- fi
-done < "$hashtemp"
-
echo "==> Complete" >&2
