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Add a `license family` concept to group license matches together
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## Short Description
There are often license notices where a short license intro is followed by a much larger license notice right after (or in a different ecosystem/legelese specific file):
For example:
```
/***********************************************************************
A JavaScript tokenizer / parser / beautifier / compressor.
https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2
-------------------------------- (C) ---------------------------------
Author: Mihai Bazon
http://mihai.bazon.net/blog
Distributed under the BSD license:
Copyright 2012 (c) Mihai Bazon
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above
copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER “AS IS” AND ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF
THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE.
```
This is detected as `bsd-new AND bsd-simplified` where the introductory license statement is `Distributed under the BSD license:` is detected as `bsd-new`.
We can have a `license-family` attribute in the `.LICENSE` files for versioned licenses so we can resolve and merge short license statements like these with a larger text and simplify and correct the license expression.
For example, here for the bsd family of licenses we will add a data field:
```
license-family: bsd
```
And use this as a basis in LicenseDetection creation while merging multiple matches.
We could also potentially group license matches similarly using the license family concept.
This can also be done for example when the package manifest has a short license statement but the NOTICE/LICENSE file for the package .
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- [ ] Add License/Copyright
- [ ] Scan Feature
- [ ] Packaging
- [ ] Documentation
- [ ] Expand Support
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