diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e6033d3c48d3..dfd265e036f3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env perl
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
 # (c) 2001, Dave Jones. (the file handling bit)
 # (c) 2005, Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> (the ugly bit)
 # (c) 2007,2008, Andy Whitcroft <apw@uk.ibm.com> (new conditions, test suite)
 # (c) 2008-2010 Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
-# Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
+# (c) 2010-2018 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 99c96e86eccb..30eca36b4dad 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env perl
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
 # (c) 2007, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
 #           created from checkpatch.pl
 #
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@
 #
 # usage: perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl [OPTIONS] <patch>
 #        perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl [OPTIONS] -f <file>
-#
-# Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
 
 use warnings;
 use strict;