According to the example of SPDX ID[1], if we want to adopt the  SPDX
ID, we may need to add a comment line in the file header just like
below

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

I think we can add it before the License header of Apache.

Just my 2 cents.

Willem Jiang

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On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 8:12 PM kezhenxu94@apache <kezhenx...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Both SPDX identifier (short form) and full boilerplate can be used to apply 
> the Apache License. And because ASF has our own specific template that is 
> related to our use of a CLA, so we required ASF projects to use this specific 
> one[2].
>
> [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers
>
> > On Mar 19, 2022, at 17:03, tison <wander4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently I notice the SPDX identifiers format defined by the Linux
> > Foundation for machine
> > processing of license information based on the SPDX License Identifiers
> > that are here available:
> > http://spdx.org/licenses/.
> >
> > I can see that all of Apache project use it's own License header
> > template[1] and curious what's
> > the suggestions on using SPDX identifiers in Apache projects. Can an Apache
> > project adopts both
> > conventions? Is it encouraged or acceptable a general project using Apache
> > License using the
> > SPDX identifiers as license header?
> >
> > Best,
> > tison.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://github.com/apache/skywalking-eyes/blob/eb0e0b091ea41213f712f622797e37526ca1e5d6/assets/header-templates/Apache-2.0-ASF.txt
>
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