diff --git a/DOCS/xml-fields.md b/DOCS/xml-fields.md
index 60771b90c..72fb1ad48 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml-fields.md
+++ b/DOCS/xml-fields.md
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ There are two additional attributes which are optional, but highly encouraged:
 * `listVersionAdded`: in which release version of the SPDX License List was the license first added, e.g. "3.19".
   * Typically you'll check the currently-released version at https://spdx.org/licenses/ and increment the minor version by 1 for a new license.
 
-Finally, if the license ID has been deprecated, two additional attributes should be included:
-* `isDeprecated`: should be "true" if the license ID is deprecated
+Finally, if the license ID has been deprecated, one additional attribute should be included:
 * `deprecatedVersion`: in which release version of the SPDX License List was the license first marked as deprecated, e.g. "3.19"
 
 Note that the deprecated tags refer to whether the ID has been deprecated _by SPDX_ -- in other words, if the SPDX Legal Team no longer recommends that the identifier should be used. Licenses that have been described as "deprecated" or "superseded" by the _license author_ might no longer be recommended to use for new code, but their identifiers remain valid License IDs on the SPDX License List.
diff --git a/schema/ListedLicense.xsd b/schema/ListedLicense.xsd
index a4aa45ce1..48ce5266c 100644
--- a/schema/ListedLicense.xsd
+++ b/schema/ListedLicense.xsd
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
 			<element name="text" type="tns:formattedAltTextType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
 		</all>
 		<attribute name="licenseId" type="string" use="required" />
-		<attribute name="isDeprecated" type="boolean"/>
 		<attribute name="name" type="string" use="required" />
 		<attribute name="listVersionAdded" type="string"/>
 		<attribute name="deprecatedVersion" type="string"/>
@@ -110,15 +109,6 @@
 				</documentation>
 			</annotation>
 		</attribute>
-		<attribute name="isDeprecated" type="boolean">
-			<annotation>
-				<documentation xml:lang="en">
-					<xhtml:p>
-						<xhtml:code>isDeprecated</xhtml:code> is true if and only if the short identifier has been superseded by another.  See the <xhtml:code>deprecatedVersion</xhtml:code> documentation for more details.
-					</xhtml:p>
-				</documentation>
-			</annotation>
-		</attribute>
 		<attribute name="name" type="string" use="required">
 			<annotation>
 				<documentation xml:lang="en">