aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit

Add more rules for US govt. licenses

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See https://resources.data.gov/open-licenses/ ... for instance:

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> U.S. Government Works
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> Data and content created by government employees within the scope of their employment are not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Government works are by default in the U.S. Public Domain. If no other open license applies, the following URL should be used for the license field:
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> http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
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See also data we may want to recognize and parse: https://resources.data.gov/resources/dcat-us/

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