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BUG: LicenseRef should not be used with License Exceptions

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The SPDX team has specified that a non-SPDX-license-list text which is an exception should be identified with a name that starts with AdditionRef rather than LicenseRef.

So, from the SPDX perspective, this is wrong:
some-license-key WITH LicenseRef-something-exception
but this is right:
some-license-key WITH AdditionRef-something-exception

There are multiple Active license exceptions in DejaCode with SPDX key starting with "LicenseRef".
Updating them would of course have an impact on the LicenseDB and various ScanCode tools, so such an update is a big deal and would require a fair amount of work and communication/documentation.

I have created a new Query and Report in DejaCode (nexB dataspace) called License Exceptions with "LicenseRef". I am also attaching the .xlsx output from the report to this issue.

The resolution of this conflict requires some discussion.

Note that our current workaround to this problem, which is simply to construct an expression like this using the AND operator

some-license-key AND LicenseRef-something-exception

rather than using the operator WITH , gets us through the SPDX validator, but is not really a good long-term sustainable solution, since it avoids compliance with the latest SPDX standard.

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