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False positive detection on public-domain_198.RULE and public-domain_317.RULE #3367

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@DennisClark

A recent scan of several .java files in reactive-streams-1.0.2-sources.jar resulted in false positive detection of public-domain using rules public-domain_198.RULE and public-domain_317.RULE when the files are clearly licensed under cc0-1.0 (also detected, correctly) as evidenced by this notice text in the code:

/************************************************************************
 * Licensed under Public Domain (CC0)                                    *
 *                                                                       *
 * To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with  *
 * this code has waived all copyright and related or neighboring         *
 * rights to this code.                                                  *
 *                                                                       *
 * You should have received a copy of the CC0 legalcode along with this  *
 * work. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.*
 ************************************************************************/

The detection should be of cc0-1.0 only and the detection of a generic public-domain is incorrect and misleading.

It should be noted, by the way, that later versions of this code, as of 1.0.4, changed the license altogether:

/***************************************************
 * Licensed under MIT No Attribution (SPDX: MIT-0) *
 ***************************************************/

However, the license detection problem persists in older versions such as 1.0.2 and 1.0.3.

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