diff --git a/bincrafters_conventions/actions/check_for_spdx_license.py b/bincrafters_conventions/actions/check_for_spdx_license.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e54cc41..0000000
--- a/bincrafters_conventions/actions/check_for_spdx_license.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-import spdx_lookup
-from conans.client import conan_api
-from conans.errors import ConanException
-
-
-def check_license(main, recipe_license):
-    if spdx_lookup.by_id(recipe_license):
-        main.output_result_check(passed=True, title="SPDX License identifier")
-        return True
-    else:
-        main.output_result_check(passed=False, title="SPDX License identifier",
-                                 reason="{} doesn't seem to be a valid SPDX one. "
-                                        "Have a look at https://spdx.org/licenses/".format(recipe_license))
-        return False
-
-
-def check_for_spdx_license(main, file):
-    conan_instance, _, _ = conan_api.Conan.factory()
-    try:
-        recipe_license = conan_instance.inspect(path=file, attributes=['license'])['license']
-        if isinstance(recipe_license, str):
-            recipe_licenses = [recipe_license]
-        elif isinstance(recipe_license, tuple):
-            recipe_licenses = recipe_license
-        else:
-            main.output_result_check(passed=False, title="SPDX License identifier",
-                                     reason="license attribute is neither tuple nor string")
-            return False
-
-        return all([check_license(main, recipe_license) for recipe_license in recipe_licenses])
-    except ConanException:
-        main.output_result_check(passed=False, title="SPDX License identifier",
-                            reason="could not get the license attribute from the Conanfile")
-        return False
diff --git a/bincrafters_conventions/bincrafters_conventions.py b/bincrafters_conventions/bincrafters_conventions.py
index 67a6512..c1aed2a 100644
--- a/bincrafters_conventions/bincrafters_conventions.py
+++ b/bincrafters_conventions/bincrafters_conventions.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 import requests
 import contextlib
 import re
-from .actions.check_for_spdx_license import check_for_spdx_license
 from .actions.check_for_download_hash import check_for_download_hash
 from .actions.check_for_license import check_for_license
 from .actions.check_for_deprecated_generators import check_for_deprecated_generators
@@ -375,7 +374,6 @@ def _run_conventions_checks(self, conanfile="conanfile.py"):
 
         return (check_for_license(self),
                 check_for_required_attributes(self, conanfile),
-                check_for_spdx_license(self, conanfile),
                 check_for_download_hash(self, conanfile),
                 check_for_deprecated_generators(self, conanfile),
                 check_for_deprecated_methods(self, conanfile),
diff --git a/bincrafters_conventions/requirements.txt b/bincrafters_conventions/requirements.txt
index 9d4e9c3..92c9c00 100644
--- a/bincrafters_conventions/requirements.txt
+++ b/bincrafters_conventions/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 requests>=2.22.0
 GitPython>=3.0.4
 conan>=1.18.0
-spdx-lookup>=0.3.2
 PyNaCl~=1.3.0