aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/vulnerablecode

Add types in reference URLs

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Description

## Context
Many vulnerability database designs have a support for types of given reference URLs. For eg:
### NVD
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Schema:

- https://github.com/CVEProject/cve-schema/blob/master/schema/v5.0/CVE_JSON_5.0_schema.json
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cve-schema/blob/master/schema/v5.0/tags/reference-tags.json

### OSV
https://ossf.github.io/osv-schema/#references-field

## Proposal
Having the _type_ of reference might help in future to filter out the patches and exploits from other references.
It is not sure that we want to restrict our reference types to a few choices as done by OSV and NVD.
Further, we are not inferring the type of reference by our own but trust the upstream.

Thus, we are considering having a ``JSONField`` with contents like ``nvd:customer-entitlement, osv:fix, osv:web`` for reference type.
It is a ``JSONField`` and not a postgres ``Array`` because ``Arrays`` are specific to postgres but ``JSONFields`` are available in other dbs as well.

_(via: https://github.com/nexB/vulnerablecode/wiki/WeeklyMeetings#meeting-on-tuesday-2022-04-26-at-1000-utc)_

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