diff --git a/config/software/cacerts.rb b/config/software/cacerts.rb
index 9a2c6e4711817eecc84cce34f0fad16ec43d1bc2..e7d7d2462ff4eb5bd2a152f839cc17177395bb91 100644
--- a/config/software/cacerts.rb
+++ b/config/software/cacerts.rb
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ end
 source url: "https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert-#{version.tr('.', '-')}.pem"
 
 build do
-  patch source: "license/#{version}/add-license-file.patch"
+  # patch source: "license/#{version}/add-license-file.patch"
   mkdir "#{install_dir}/embedded/ssl/certs"
 
   # Append the 1024bit Verisign certs so that S3 continues to work
diff --git a/config/software/python-docutils.rb b/config/software/python-docutils.rb
index 9a93fead6bd49f3288cf07e77f3de129ac35aab6..71b9d10a1e1d5104d756a264ec0a82d2dbfcdc4d 100644
--- a/config/software/python-docutils.rb
+++ b/config/software/python-docutils.rb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ skip_transitive_dependency_licensing true
 dependency 'python3'
 
 build do
-  patch source: "license/#{version}/add-license-file.patch"
+  # patch source: "license/#{version}/add-license-file.patch"
   env = with_standard_compiler_flags(with_embedded_path)
   command "#{install_dir}/embedded/bin/pip3 install --compile docutils==#{version}", env: env
 end