diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 94338be90a..813e1ea4f5 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -271,10 +271,6 @@ def available_licenses(d):
     licenses = sorted(licenses)
     return licenses
 
-# Only determine the list of all available licenses once. This assumes that any
-# additions to LICENSE_PATH have been done before this file is parsed.
-AVAILABLE_LICENSES := "${@' '.join(available_licenses(d))}"
-
 def expand_wildcard_licenses(d, wildcard_licenses):
     """
     There are some common wildcard values users may want to use. Support them
diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index feb23a666b..ab2addb321 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ ASSUME_SHLIBS[doc] = "List of shlib:package[_version] mappings. Useful for lib p
 AUTHOR[doc] = "Email address used to contact the original author(s) in order to send patches and forward bugs."
 AUTO_SYSLINUXMENU[doc] = "Enables creating an automatic menu for the syslinux bootloader."
 AUTOREV[doc] = "When SRCREV is set to the value of this variable, it specifies to use the latest source revision in the repository."
-AVAILABLE_LICENSES[doc] = "List of licenses found in the directories specified by COMMON_LICENSE_DIR and LICENSE_PATH."
 
 #B