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False positive of json license #3534

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@mthalman

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Getting a false positive report of json license from this section of text: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/0cc9f2193bb447db60a81b05986ef4f513bd2381/src/libraries/System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager/tests/Mono/LongValidatorTest.cs#L2-L28

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Download the contents of https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/0cc9f2193bb447db60a81b05986ef4f513bd2381/src/libraries/System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager/tests/Mono/LongValidatorTest.cs

scancode -l LongValidatorTest.cs --json-pp report.json

Relevant output:

"files": [
    {
      "path": "LongValidatorTest.cs",
      "type": "file",
      "detected_license_expression": "mit AND json",
      "detected_license_expression_spdx": "MIT AND JSON",
      "license_detections": [
        {
          "license_expression": "mit AND json",
          "matches": [
            {
              "score": 100.0,
              "start_line": 2,
              "end_line": 2,
              "matched_length": 4,
              "match_coverage": 100.0,
              "matcher": "2-aho",
              "license_expression": "mit",
              "rule_identifier": "mit_88.RULE",
              "rule_relevance": 100,
              "rule_url": "https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/rules/mit_88.RULE"
            },
            {
              "score": 85.71,
              "start_line": 2,
              "end_line": 28,
              "matched_length": 150,
              "match_coverage": 85.71,
              "matcher": "3-seq",
              "license_expression": "json",
              "rule_identifier": "json3.RULE",
              "rule_relevance": 100,
              "rule_url": "https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/rules/json3.RULE"
            }
          ],
          "identifier": "mit_and_json-d6b53c7d-8866-b679-c08d-8014791e3db1"
        }
      ],
      "license_clues": [],
      "percentage_of_license_text": 41.35,
      "scan_errors": []
    }
  ]

System configuration

Windows, version 32.0.6, download

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