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SPDX 2.3: LicenseRefs should not be case insensitive #393

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According to the spec license expressions case sensitivity section, SPDX license IDs should be treated as case insensitive while LicenseRef's should be considered case sensitive.

Currently, if 2 license refs are found that differ only in case, an error is generated.

This situation should be allowed.

For example:

{
      "licenseId": "LicenseRef-BSD-3-clause-GENERIC",
      "extractedText": "NOASSERTION",
      "name": "BSD-3-clause-GENERIC"
    },
[...]
    {
      "licenseId": "LicenseRef-BSD-3-clause-generic",
      "extractedText": "NOASSERTION",
      "name": "BSD-3-clause-generic"
    },

should be allowed.

The error generated is Analysis exception processing SPDX file: Object URI ...#LicenseRef-BSD-3-clause-generic already exists.

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