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Follow to license files in package manifest
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improve-license-detection
license scan
package scan
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Description
Some package manifests has attributes such as `License File` referencing to a license in a file. There needs to be a specific step in the license detection to determine whether we have followed this successfully. Presently this is handled generally, only if the text is matched to a rule with a referenced filename, which handles the majority of cases.
But this also needs to be done, regardless of the filename being legalese.
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