diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 551c4a937..940f19cf5 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Dulwich may be used under the conditions of either of two licenses,
 the Apache License (version 2.0 or later) or the GNU General Public License,
 version 2.0 or later.
 
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
+
                                  Apache License
                            Version 2.0, January 2004
                         http://www.apache.org/licenses/
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 67eb5bb15..e9b24e307 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ doesn't call out to git directly but instead uses pure Python.
 
 **License**: Apache License, version 2 or GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
 
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
+
 The project is named after the part of London that Mr. and Mrs. Git live in
 the particular Monty Python sketch.