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possible wrong rules triggering #4879

@armijnhemel

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@armijnhemel

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In the BusyBox project I can see the phrase

and put under GPLv2 license.

which can be found at https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/networking/tls_aes.c#L39

This triggers https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/src/licensedcode/data/rules/gpl-2.0_818.RULE

but it doesn't report https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/src/licensedcode/data/rules/gpl-2.0_493.RULE which would also be valid. This rule catches a little bit less, but also a little bit more. My question to @pombredanne and @AyanSinhaMahapatra is what the best course of action would be:

  1. ignore and just go with the 818 rule
  2. ignore and go with the 493 rule
  3. create a new rule that combines the two rules

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