aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit

GPL-2.0 false alarm

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bug improve-license-detection revisit
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Description

### Description

GPL-2.0 false alarm detected.

### How To Reproduce

I scanned the source code of ipython 7.25.0.
It detected GPL-2.0 in the file (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/7.25.0/setup.py).

Matched Text
```
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
#
# The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
```

### System configuration

* What OS are you running on? Linux
* What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file? v21.3.31
* What installation method was used to install/run scancode? pip

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