LicenseCompareHelper: Apache-1.0 & 1.1 license texts published by Apache not recognised about spdx-java-library HOT 6 CLOSED

Note sure if this is useful (given the extraneous prefix and suffix text in the source text), but the "difference message" in the DifferenceDescription object returned from org.spdx.utility.compare.LicenseCompareHelper.isTextStandardLicense() says:

Variable text rule combined-bullet-Clause5 did not match the compare text starting at line spdx/Spdx-Java-Library#38 column spdx/Spdx-Java-Library#1 "5" while processing rule var: combined-bullet-Clause5.  Last optional text was not found due to the optional difference:
	Normal text of license does not match starting at line spdx/Spdx-Java-Library#1 column spdx/Spdx-Java-Library#4 "an" when comparing to template text "Apache License 1.1

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I'm seeing the same behaviour with the Apache-1.0 text published by Apache too.

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This could be the same problem of dealing with multiple spaces when matching with a var rule as in spdx/license-list-XML#2264 and spdx/license-list-XML#2266. There are multiple spaces in point 5 and it has a var rule.

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I verified that replacing all new lines and multiple spaces by single spaces results in the Apache-1.1 text to be correctly identified but not the Apache-1.0 text.
The Apache 1.0 text differs in bullet 5:
"appear in their names, without prior" instead of "appear in their name, without prior" so this is a bug in the template.

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This should now be fixed with PR #221

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This should now be fixed with PR #221

Minor clarification: this is still failing, but that's due to spdx/license-list-XML#2259 and spdx/license-list-XML#2270 (i.e. PR #221 has fixed any Spdx-Java-Library specific problems involved in this behaviour).

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