diff --git a/usr.bin/ar/ar.c b/usr.bin/ar/ar.c
index e902a8ff37cc..c1050aa4c95e 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ar/ar.c
+++ b/usr.bin/ar/ar.c
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 /*-
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- *
  * Copyright (c) 2007 Kai Wang
  * Copyright (c) 2007 Tim Kientzle
  * Copyright (c) 2007 Joseph Koshy
diff --git a/usr.bin/ar/read.c b/usr.bin/ar/read.c
index 782505423d04..704812cebb30 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ar/read.c
+++ b/usr.bin/ar/read.c
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 /*-
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD
- *
  * Copyright (c) 2007 Kai Wang
  * Copyright (c) 2007 Tim Kientzle
  * All rights reserved.
diff --git a/usr.bin/ar/util.c b/usr.bin/ar/util.c
index d6eb36e02687..e1230e330134 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ar/util.c
+++ b/usr.bin/ar/util.c
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 /*-
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD
- *
  * Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Tim Kientzle
  * All rights reserved.
  *