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Missed license detections

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Description

The scancode is not scanning the licenses properly. Here are the file paths and license details that are missed from scanning. Attached the package as zip which is scanned and result JSON also for reference.

File path: files/flask-3.1.1/COPYING
Missed rule: afl-2.1_or_gpl-2.0_1.RULE

[flask_2025_08_21_180112.json](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/21917863/flask_2025_08_21_180112.json)
[flask-3.1.1-afl-or-gpl.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/21917864/flask-3.1.1-afl-or-gpl.zip)

We are using scancode in Linux machine and every time we are downloading the source from git.

Affected ScanCode version: 32.3.3
Affected ScanCode Output Format version: 4.0.0

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