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False positive detections from license-intro_59.RULE and unknown_55.RULE #3368

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@DennisClark

In a recent scan of README.dom.txt in xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar the results reported unknown-license-reference and unknown based on very small fragments of text in line 8

the DOM in this repository are distributed under the license

but the whole context of the text clearly points to license w3c

All of the .java software and associated documentation about 
the DOM in this repository are distributed under the license 
from the W3C, which is provided herein.

In fact, the w3c license is correctly detected in the scan results, but the two unknown detections are misleading and erroneous. This problem can probably be addressed by a new RULE.

README.dom.txt.zip

xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar-extract-scan-results.json.zip

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