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Fallback to matching policy on license name

mo khan requested to merge 208723-qa-specs into master

What does this MR do?

This change fixes a defect that occurs when self managed installations do not have outbound network access to fetch the latest SPDX catalogue. When this occurs, the software_licenses table contains a nil value in the spdx_identifier column for each row in the table.

The change in this MR allows for falling back to matching policy with license based on license name when an spdx identifier for the software license is not available.

This change also fixes the following QA tests:

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