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cc-pdm-1.0.LICENSE false positive #4859

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@armijnhemel

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When scanning:

https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/docs/draft-coar-cgi-v11-03-clean.html#L600

the result is cc-pdm-1.0 which is incorrect, as only 4 words are matched.

{
      "path": "busybox-1.37.0/docs/draft-coar-cgi-v11-03-clean.html",
      "type": "file",
      "detected_license_expression": null,
      "detected_license_expression_spdx": null,
      "license_detections": [],
      "license_clues": [
        {
          "license_expression": "cc-pdm-1.0",
          "license_expression_spdx": "CC-PDM-1.0",
          "from_file": "busybox-1.37.0/docs/draft-coar-cgi-v11-03-clean.html",
          "start_line": 600,
          "end_line": 600,
          "matcher": "3-seq",
          "score": 2.15,
          "matched_length": 4,
          "match_coverage": 2.15,
          "rule_relevance": 100,
          "rule_identifier": "cc-pdm-1.0.LICENSE",
          "rule_url": "https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses/cc-pdm-1.0.LICENSE"
        }
      ],
      "percentage_of_license_text": 0.04,
      "scan_errors": []
    },

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