diff --git a/core/base_rules.mk b/core/base_rules.mk
index c45346989c..65e80fb925 100644
--- a/core/base_rules.mk
+++ b/core/base_rules.mk
@@ -190,18 +190,6 @@ ifneq ($(filter-out tests optional samples,$(my_module_tags)),)
 $(call pretty-error,unusual tags: $(filter-out tests optional samples,$(my_module_tags)))
 endif
 
-# Add implicit tags.
-#
-# If the local directory or one of its parents contains a MODULE_LICENSE_GPL
-# file, tag the module as "gnu".  Search for "*_GPL*", "*_LGPL*" and "*_MPL*"
-# so that we can also find files like MODULE_LICENSE_GPL_AND_AFL
-#
-gpl_license_file := $(call find-parent-file,$(LOCAL_PATH),MODULE_LICENSE*_GPL* MODULE_LICENSE*_MPL* MODULE_LICENSE*_LGPL*)
-ifneq ($(gpl_license_file),)
-  my_module_tags += gnu
-  ALL_GPL_MODULE_LICENSE_FILES += $(gpl_license_file)
-endif
-
 LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := $(strip $(LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS))
 ifneq ($(words $(LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS)),1)
   $(error $(LOCAL_PATH): LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS must contain exactly one word, not "$(LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS)")
diff --git a/core/definitions.mk b/core/definitions.mk
index e4cee7ab5a..6abd35571e 100644
--- a/core/definitions.mk
+++ b/core/definitions.mk
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ INTERNAL_DALVIK_MODULES:=
 # All findbugs xml files
 ALL_FINDBUGS_FILES:=
 
-# GPL module license files
-ALL_GPL_MODULE_LICENSE_FILES:=
-
 # Packages with certificate violation
 CERTIFICATE_VIOLATION_MODULES :=
 
diff --git a/core/tasks/collect_gpl_sources.mk b/core/tasks/collect_gpl_sources.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e9ab8ecc2..0000000000
--- a/core/tasks/collect_gpl_sources.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# The rule below doesn't have dependenices on the files that it copies,
-# so manually generate into a PACKAGING intermediate dir, which is wiped
-# in installclean between incremental builds on build servers.
-gpl_source_tgz := $(call intermediates-dir-for,PACKAGING,gpl_source)/gpl_source.tgz
-
-ALL_GPL_MODULE_LICENSE_FILES := $(sort $(ALL_GPL_MODULE_LICENSE_FILES))
-
-# FORCE since we can't know whether any of the sources changed
-$(gpl_source_tgz): PRIVATE_PATHS := $(sort $(patsubst %/, %, $(dir $(ALL_GPL_MODULE_LICENSE_FILES))))
-$(gpl_source_tgz) : $(ALL_GPL_MODULE_LICENSE_FILES)
-	@echo Package GPL sources: $@
-	$(hide) tar cfz $@ --exclude ".git*" $(PRIVATE_PATHS)
-
-# Dist the tgz only if we are doing a full build
-$(call dist-for-goals,droidcore-unbundled,$(gpl_source_tgz))