diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/update-license-data.rb b/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/update-license-data.rb
index 7836f069a9..78b9f3e333 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/update-license-data.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/dev-cmd/update-license-data.rb
@@ -35,6 +35,6 @@ module Homebrew
     ohai "git add"
     safe_system "git", "add", SPDX::JSON_PATH
     ohai "git commit"
-    system "git", "commit", "--message", "data/spdx.json: update to #{latest_tag}"
+    system "git", "commit", "--message", "data/spdx.json: update to #{SPDX.latest_tag}"
   end
 end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils/spdx.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils/spdx.rb
index 4ee6b59eb4..ffa2de8054 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils/spdx.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils/spdx.rb
@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@ module SPDX
     @spdx_data ||= JSON.parse(JSON_PATH.read)
   end
 
+  def latest_tag
+    @latest_tag ||= GitHub.open_api(API_URL)["tag_name"]
+  end
+
   def download_latest_license_data!(to: JSON_PATH)
-    latest_tag = GitHub.open_api(API_URL)["tag_name"]
     data_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/#{latest_tag}/json/licenses.json"
     curl_download(data_url, to: to, partial: false)
   end