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Some problematic Apache-like licenses

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### Description
There are some almost like the Apache license, but modified in some subtle or gross ways.
We catch most of them, but this could be refined and be even more explicit in the returned results

Some pointers:
1. https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/Lawnchair-V1/blob/2acbd3c4756713f1f53e19c5cda9a7bbd399a199/LICENSE
2. https://github.com/rohitgirdhar/AttentionalPoolingAction/blob/master/LICENSE
3. https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/issues/1342 and https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/ruby-jss and https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/ruby-jss/issues/27
4. https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/3384
5. https://github.com/licensee/licensee/issues/474

@armijnhemel Thanks for some of these!
@tdunning ping since you brought that up to licensee and the ASF board

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