Comment representing copied source could not be picked up by SCANCODE

[SheriffManzoorF]

Description

During the scancode scan of package NPM::source-map-support:, the scancode couldn't pick up the presence of copy paste code mentioned in the file https://github.com/evanw/node-source-map-support/blob/7b5b81eb14c9ee6c6537398262bf7dab8580621c/source-map-support.js.

How To Reproduce

Download the source code from github : https://github.com/evanw/node-source-map-support/archive/7b5b81eb14c9ee6c6537398262bf7dab8580621c.zip .

scancode -clpeui --json-pp

System configuration

For bug reports, it really helps us to know:

• What OS are you running on? Windows
• What version of scancode-toolkit was used to generate the scan file?
• What installation method was used to install/run scancode? source download

Attached sample report for your consideration:

sample.json

[stefan6419846]

The scans has correctly picked up the URL https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/trunk/src/messages.js How is SCTK expected to know the corresponding license data associated with this URL? IMHO it should be the task of the reviewer of the generated output to look at all detected URLs and do something useful with it, for example researching the original license data for this specific copied code.

[SheriffManzoorF]

Dear @stefan6419846 , thanks I used ORT which do not bring out this information from Scancode. but just running scancode is able to bring out this url. Thanks again for pointing out. Of course reviewers will do the rest of clarifying the license.