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Imprecise detection of public-domain using public-domain_bare_words.RULE #3360

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@DennisClark

In a recent scan of file Base64.java in package netty-codec-4.1.66.Final-sources.jar the scan properly detected apache-2.0 as well as cc-pd using the cc-pd_12.RULE:

lines 17-18

However, at another point in the same file
line 35
* <a href="http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/java/base64/">Robert Harder's Public Domain

the author obviously meant to refer to Robert Harder's previous assertion of cc-pd
but the scan returned public-domain (Licenseref-scancode-public-domain) instead
with a score of 70 on public-domain_bare_words.RULE
which is not really correct

Suggestion: A possible resolution to this issue would be a new RULE that points the text
Robert Harder's Public Domain to cc-pd

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