How to use SPDX for licensing?

• license-list-XML

  8 325 9.6 Makefile

  This is the repository for the master files that comprise the SPDX License List

  

Recently, I came to know about SPDX but I am not sure about how to use it. From the articles that I've read, it seems like SPDX mainly consists of all common licenses here and then we mention the license and some other data inside our project. Is it legible to replace actual License file with this SPDX config file or do we need to keep the license file in the project as well? So far it seems like the syntax for specifying license and other data in SPDX file is just for convenience and doesn't serve any actual purpose. For Ex- It would've been better if it could generate license files from it or even if it just validates the data. Maybe I'm missing something because there isn't much resource on the internet regarding this.

• linux

  980 170,074 10.0 C

  Linux kernel source tree

See how Linux uses it for an example (the first line). This is how you put in source code.

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