diff --git a/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files b/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files
index 88babb795dcb8..610d517ed482a 100644
--- a/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files
+++ b/ci/licenses_golden/excluded_files
@@ -202,7 +202,6 @@
 ../../../flutter/impeller/tessellator/tessellator_unittests.cc
 ../../../flutter/impeller/toolkit/android/README.md
 ../../../flutter/impeller/toolkit/android/toolkit_android_unittests.cc
-../../../flutter/impeller/tools/check_licenses.py
 ../../../flutter/impeller/tools/malioc_cores.py
 ../../../flutter/impeller/tools/malioc_diff.py
 ../../../flutter/impeller/tools/metal_library.py
diff --git a/impeller/tools/check_licenses.py b/impeller/tools/check_licenses.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 58e6ef0d2b379..0000000000000
--- a/impeller/tools/check_licenses.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2013 The Flutter Authors. All rights reserved.
-# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
-# found in the LICENSE file.
-
-import argparse
-import os
-
-
-def contains_license_block(source_file):
-  # This check is somewhat easier than in the engine because all sources need to
-  # have the same license.
-  py_license = """# Copyright 2013 The Flutter Authors. All rights reserved.
-# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
-# found in the LICENSE file."""
-  c_license = py_license.replace('#', '//')
-
-  # Make sure we don't read the entire file into memory.
-  read_size = (max(len(py_license), len(c_license)))
-
-  for lic in [c_license, py_license]:
-    with open(source_file) as source:
-      if source.read(read_size).startswith(lic):
-        return True
-
-  return False
-
-
-def is_source_file(path):
-  known_extensions = [
-      '.cc',
-      '.cpp',
-      '.c',
-      '.h',
-      '.hpp',
-      '.py',
-      '.sh',
-      '.gn',
-      '.gni',
-      '.glsl',
-      '.sl.h',
-      '.vert',
-      '.frag',
-      '.tesc',
-      '.tese',
-      '.yaml',
-      '.dart',
-  ]
-  for extension in known_extensions:
-    if os.path.basename(path).endswith(extension):
-      return True
-  return False
-
-
-# Checks that all source files have the same license preamble.
-def main():
-  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-  parser.add_argument('--source-root', type=str, required=True, help='The source root.')
-  args = parser.parse_args()
-
-  assert os.path.exists(args.source_root)
-
-  source_files = set()
-
-  for root, _, files in os.walk(os.path.abspath(args.source_root)):
-    for file in files:
-      file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
-      if is_source_file(file_path):
-        source_files.add(file_path)
-
-  for source_file in source_files:
-    if not contains_license_block(source_file):
-      raise Exception('Could not find valid license block in source ', source_file)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-  main()