SPDX tag question

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Hi Greg & Co,

A question has come up in the infiniband/rdma space about what SPDX
license headers to use for some of our files.

I see in commit e2be04c7f9958dde770eeb8b30e829ca969b37bb you added
this header:

--- a/include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_sa.h
+++ b/include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_sa.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) */
 /*

However, following the matching guidelines at spdx.org, I don't get to
the same conclusion.

The license in this file does not have the same 'disclaimer' text as
the reference BSD-2-Clause, which sounds like it shouldn't match based
on guideline 2.1.1 ?

Specifically, the so-called 'OpenIB.org BSD license' is a mash up of
the first half of the 2 clause BSD license with the disclaimer
replaced with the disclaimer from the MIT license.

As I read the SPDX rules this license seems like it needs a new tag?

Alternatively, we can keep using the BSD-2-Clause tag if it was
determined that is correct for some reason?

Can you shed any light on this topic?

Thanks,
Jason
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