aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit

cc0 false positive

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Description

### Description

Some Linux kernel files (not mainline, but from vendors) contain patterns that trigger a CC0 false positive

```
"matched_text": "#define nlm_write_c2_cc0(s, v)\t\t__write_32bit_c2_register($16, s, v)"
```

### System configuration

* What OS are you running on? (Windows/MacOS/Linux): Linux
* What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file? "tool_version": "v31.2.3-377-gcad392f71c",

* What installation method was used to install/run scancode? (pip/source download/other) - checkout from Git

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