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RFC: Track holder/author names not to ignore in a license

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Description

BSD licenses commonly have a non-endorsement clause prohibit to use the holder name. It would be great to:
1. Have a way to tag the text or text region as being a holder name, either tagging the name explicitly,
2. And/or, list which are the known holder names in a given rule

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