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Text "under CDDL/LGPL dual license" not recognized by license scan #3358

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@DennisClark

In a recent scan of tika-parsers-1.28.5-sources.jar the text "under CDDL/LGPL dual license" was not detected as a choice of cddl-1.0 OR lgpl-2.1-plus but instead returned unknown-license-reference based on a match with just the "dual license" part as detected using unknown-license-reference_318.RULE. The file in question is at
/org/apache/tika/parser/code/SourceCodeParser.java

The code context is:
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I checked the JHighlight project on GitHub and the COPYING file states:
It is distributed under the terms of either:

  • the common development and distribution license (CDDL), v1.0; or
  • the GNU Lesser General Public License, v2.1 or later

If possible, it would be nice if the license detection process would resolve this situation to cddl-1.0 OR lgpl-2.1-plus .

I am of the opinion (arguable of course) that just CDDL can be interpreted as cddl-1.0 and just LGPL can be interpreted as lgpl-2.1-plus, since those are very commonly found in such cases.

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