From a489d2f1f712f0fe157ea04d1f27ca08bee4883c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aditya Patwardhan <adityap@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 10:36:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [release/v7.5.7] Remove package verification from the notice
 pipeline (#27463)

---
 .pipelines/apiscan-gen-notice.yml                  | 4 ----
 .pipelines/templates/compliance/generateNotice.yml | 7 -------
 2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.pipelines/apiscan-gen-notice.yml b/.pipelines/apiscan-gen-notice.yml
index a93f98a2e5..1761810b2a 100644
--- a/.pipelines/apiscan-gen-notice.yml
+++ b/.pipelines/apiscan-gen-notice.yml
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ parameters:
     displayName: Debugging - Enable CodeQL and set cadence to 1 hour
     type: boolean
     default: false
-  - name: SkipVerifyPackages
-    type: boolean
-    default: false
 
 variables:
   # PAT permissions NOTE: Declare a SymbolServerPAT variable in this group with a 'microsoft' organizanization scoped PAT with 'Symbols' Read permission.
@@ -109,4 +106,3 @@ extends:
           - template: /.pipelines/templates/compliance/generateNotice.yml@self
             parameters:
               parentJobs: []
-              SkipVerifyPackages: ${{ parameters.SkipVerifyPackages }}
diff --git a/.pipelines/templates/compliance/generateNotice.yml b/.pipelines/templates/compliance/generateNotice.yml
index 90fd08dd8d..aec44b9b8f 100644
--- a/.pipelines/templates/compliance/generateNotice.yml
+++ b/.pipelines/templates/compliance/generateNotice.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 parameters:
   - name: parentJobs
     type: jobList
-  - name: SkipVerifyPackages
-    type: boolean
 
 jobs:
 - job: generateNotice
@@ -57,11 +55,6 @@ jobs:
     inputs:
       sourceScanPath: '$(repoRoot)\tools\cgmanifest\tpn'
 
-  - pwsh: |
-      $(repoRoot)/tools/clearlyDefined/ClearlyDefined.ps1 -TestAndHarvest
-    displayName: Verify that packages have license data
-    condition: eq(${{ parameters.SkipVerifyPackages }}, false)
-
   - task: msospo.ospo-extension.8d7f9abb-6896-461d-9e25-4f74ed65ddb2.notice@0
     displayName: 'NOTICE File Generator'
     inputs: