diff --git a/meta/classes/create-spdx-2.2.bbclass b/meta/classes/create-spdx-2.2.bbclass
index 509d3b58b6f..4930793cd97 100644
--- a/meta/classes/create-spdx-2.2.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/create-spdx-2.2.bbclass
@@ -401,6 +401,8 @@ python do_create_spdx() {
     from contextlib import contextmanager
     import oe.cve_check
 
+    oe.spdx_common.load_spdx_license_data(d)
+
     @contextmanager
     def optional_tarfile(name, guard, mode="w"):
         import tarfile
diff --git a/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass b/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass
index e1528b6d0b5..cd9cc0db987 100644
--- a/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass
@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ SPDX_CUSTOM_ANNOTATION_VARS ??= ""
 
 SPDX_MULTILIB_SSTATE_ARCHS ??= "${SSTATE_ARCHS}"
 
-python() {
-    import oe.spdx_common
-    oe.spdx_common.load_spdx_license_data(d)
-}
-
-
 python do_collect_spdx_deps() {
     # This task calculates the build time dependencies of the recipe, and is
     # required because while a task can deptask on itself, those dependencies
diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py b/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py
index 9d5bbadc0f4..e9e99756dc0 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py
@@ -452,6 +452,9 @@ def create_spdx(d):
         if val:
             setattr(obj, name, val)
 
+    import oe.spdx_common
+    oe.spdx_common.load_spdx_license_data(d)
+
     deploydir = Path(d.getVar("SPDXDEPLOY"))
     deploy_dir_spdx = Path(d.getVar("DEPLOY_DIR_SPDX"))
     spdx_workdir = Path(d.getVar("SPDXWORK"))