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Improve license detection of declared RPM licenses
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Description
### Description
We should create a license symbols map for RPMs and use that to feed the expression detection first before detecting more.
Otherwise we get too many inconsistencies.
A recent set of CentOS RPM licenses with detected/declared is attached for info
[rpms-licenses.csv.txt](https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/files/6031473/rpms-licenses.csv.txt)
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