Hello Bob, This is regarding discussion on internal logic/operation about FOSSology tool on how it determines License for a file. we investigated and verified that FOSSology scans for a "License Notice text" of a license for e.g. say take BSD-2-Clause licenses, it scans for copyright info followed by license notice text. If it recognizes the match, then it declares the license of particular file as BSD-2-Clause. My question is what if you have missed two-or more lines from "notice text", does FOSSology recognize correctly as BSD-2-Clause?? Let us know if there is a workaround? some thing having checksum of same file in a database or recognizing logical pattern etc.
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