I've gotten confirmation from Grace that we don't need to do this in clank either. I'll plug away at it.

Yeah, the upstream bots stopped running this step as a result of https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/topic/chromium-dev/pwyjF_jAf6I/discussion so it should be fine for the downstream bots to stop it as well.

Any update?

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chrome-internal.googlesource.com/chrome/tools/build_limited/scripts/slave/+/2144c5d300f949d2436f0664af59435d59ddd948

commit 2144c5d300f949d2436f0664af59435d59ddd948
Author: Matthew Cary <mattcary@google.com>
Date: Fri Jan 06 12:21:46 2017

Will check tomorrow if the above commit fixes the internal.client.clank/release-phone bot failures and close the bug if it does.

It's still failing, but not because of the licenses! Marking as fixed.