Refine referenced filenames #3547 #3681
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This PR refine how we handle "referenced filenames" that we track in license detection rules.
We use improved heuristics to decide if a something detected like "See license in COPYING" will follow the license found in the file "COPYING" or not follow and reuse it in the detection, as suggested in the issue:
Tasks
Run tests locally to check for errors.