Ambiguous syntax in License Match Template for match and original keywords with double quotes

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Double quotes are used to delimit keywords in the License Templates. If one of the keyword values contains a double quote, the processing is not specified leading to inconsistencies and errors.

For example, if you want to include parenthesis in the match= you would have match="this is "quote""

This situation has occurred for the original text keyword (see issue spdx/license-list-XML#1104 for details).

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One possible solution is to move to the License XML format and deprecate the template text format.

The License XML contains significantly more semantic information on the license content which may be valuable to downstream consumers.

This solution would require fully specifying the XML format in the SPDX specification.

[goneall]

This turned out not to be the issue - the issue was with the semi-colon.

Closing this out,