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Improve detection of pypi packages
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For instance https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c9/5e/dc6acaf46d78979d6b03458b7a1618a68e152a6776fce95daac5e0f0301b/psycopg2-2.9.9.tar.gz has an ambiguous license in its manifest, but it has a proper license file in it PKG-INFO. We should report the correct referenced license:
Extracted license statement is reported as lgpl-2.0-plus
```
license: LGPL with exceptions
classifiers:
- 'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)'
```
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