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G10's license identified as fsf-unlimited-no-warranty #3934

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Background

On https://ubuntu.com/legal/open-source-licences?release=xenial you will find dbus, and if looking closer we can see

dbus	1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6	main	AFL-2.1,AFL-2.1,,BSD-3-clause,BSD-3-clause-generic,Expat,g10-permissive,GPL-2+,Tcl-BSDish

Looking (even) closer at the "g10-permissive" license on https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6/copyright we can see the license referred to as "g10-permissive":

Files: dbus/versioninfo.rc.in
Copyright: © 2005 g10 Code GmbH
License: g10-permissive
 This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
 unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
 modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the
 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Problem
Scancode (32.0.8) identifies the above license as https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/fsf-unlimited-no-warranty.html.

However, these licenses (FSF and G10) are not (exactly) the same:

The FSF license

This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation gives
unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

The G10 license

 * This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
 * unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
 * modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the
 * implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Reproducing the bug

$ curl -LJO https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/dbus 1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6/dbus_1.10.6.orig.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf dbus_1.10.6.orig.tar.gz
$ scancode --classify --copyright --email --info --json-pp  dbus-1.10.6-scan.json --license --license-clarity-score --license-text --license-text-diagnostics --package --processes 16 --summary dbus-1.10.6

# Finding the match
# alt 1
$ cat dbus-1.10.6-scan.json | jq '.files[] | select(.path=="dbus-1.10.6/dbus/versioninfo.rc.in")' | jq .license_detections
# alt 2
$ pip install scarfer
$ scarfer dbus-1.10.6-scan.json -l -m -if dbus/versioninfo.rc.in

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