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ScanCode incorrectly identifies BSD-3-Clause text as proprietary license #3039

@richardfontana

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@richardfontana

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I ran ScanCode 31.0.0rc1 on the Fedora source package for webkit2gtk3-2.36.5. The license text in one file, which appears to be identical or substantially identical to this Webkit source file:
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/cmake/DetectSSE2.cmake
was incorrectly identified as "proprietary-license" by ScanCode, with the score 90.99, for reasons that are unclear to me.
The "matched-rule" is "proprietary-license_501.RULE".

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  • What OS are you running on? (Windows/MacOS/Linux) Linux
  • What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file? 31.0.0rc1
  • What installation method was used to install/run scancode? (pip/source download/other)
    I used the Linux release archive for the stated version of scancode-toolkit.

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