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Inconsistencies wrt relative paths in `referenced_filenames`
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### Description
This isn't so much a bug report as more of a question. I can see that in certain rule files there are relative paths in the license text, but in `referenced_filenames` it is inconsistent. Sometimes `referenced_filenames` includes the relative component (such as `..`), other times it doesn't.
An example is `mit_1356.RULE`:
```
---
license_expression: mit
relevance: 100
is_license_reference: yes
referenced_filenames:
- LICENSE
---
{{licensed under MIT}}, see ../LICENSE
```
while in `apache-2.0_1122.RULE`:
```
---
license_expression: apache-2.0
is_license_notice: yes
relevance: 100
referenced_filenames:
- ../../../LICENSE
---
## License
This code is licensed under {{Apache-2.0 }}(../../../LICENSE).
```
I could not find any guidance in the documentation about what the correct way is.
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