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Tracing "Start Line" of ScanCode report back to the Binary file.

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Description

I have scanned few Binaries using Scancode toolkit. I wanted to know how to find the "Start Line" from the report back to Binary? For e.g. the Scancode toolkit report says "Start Line 64343" (for License text option) but I am unable to locate the exact Binaries in the original Binary file.
The reason I am posting is because I found a GPL v1 license as per the ScanCode report. The rule it used to identify was "GPL-Bare-word". But I wasn't able to find the word GPL in the actual raw binary (Ascii converted). If I could trace the exact location then asserting false positives would be easier.

## Possible Labels
Start-Line, License text, License location in Binary

- new feature

## Select Category
License text "Start line"

- [x] Enhancement

## **Describe the Update**
Able to trace the Start-line to its location in the Raw Binary.

## **How This Feature will help you/your organization**
This will help us identify false positives.

Kiran Ravindran (kiran.ravindran@daimler.com) on behalf of
Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Pvt. Ltd. (subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG)
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Plot No. 5-P, EPIP 1st Phase
Whitefield, Krishnarajapuram
Bangalore - 560066, India

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