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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