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BSD/GPL false positive #4373

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Scanning the following license text:

Source code in this repository is licensed under various licenses. The
Business Source License 1.1 (BSL) is one such license. Each file indicates in
a section at the beginning of the file the name of the license that applies to
it. All licenses used in this repository can be found in the top-level
licenses directory.

gives me:

    {
      "identifier": "bsd_new_or_gpl_2_0__and_bsl_1_1-1599420a-93b5-3185-5f84-e963a785af88",
      "license_expression": "(bsd-new OR gpl-2.0) AND bsl-1.1",
      "license_expression_spdx": "(BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only) AND BUSL-1.1",
      "detection_count": 1,
      "detection_log": [],
      "reference_matches": [
        {
          "license_expression": "bsd-new OR gpl-2.0",
          "license_expression_spdx": "BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only",
          "from_file": "8/488b5883433152f8",
          "start_line": 1,
          "end_line": 2,
          "matcher": "3-seq",
          "score": 12.38,
          "matched_length": 5,
          "match_coverage": 12.5,
          "rule_relevance": 99,
          "rule_identifier": "bsd-new_or_gpl-2.0_32.RULE",
          "rule_url": "https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/rules/bsd-new_or_gpl-2.0_32.RULE"
        },
        {
          "license_expression": "bsl-1.1",
          "license_expression_spdx": "BUSL-1.1",
          "from_file": "8/488b5883433152f8",
          "start_line": 2,
          "end_line": 2,
          "matcher": "2-aho",
          "score": 100.0,
          "matched_length": 5,
          "match_coverage": 100.0,
          "rule_relevance": 100,
          "rule_identifier": "bsl-1.1_3.RULE",
          "rule_url": "https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/rules/bsl-1.1_3.RULE"
        }
      ]
    },

but there is absolutely no mention of BSD or GPL in the license text at all.

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