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| <li><a href="#what">What is Rat?</a></li> |
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| The apache-rat-plugin creates a report for every subproject. |
| I want a single report for the whole project, which includes |
| the subprojects. |
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| <dt><a name="what">What is Rat?</a></dt> |
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| Basically, you can think of it as a tool that checks, |
| whether you're source files are carrying proper |
| license headers. Almost any non-trivial organization |
| has a policy for license headers. In the case |
| of the <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.apache.org/">Apache Software |
| Foundation (ASF)</a>, this is the |
| <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html">ASF |
| Source Header and Copyright Notice Policy</a>. |
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| <dt><a name="where">Where do I find Apache Rat?</a></dt> |
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| Apache Rat is now part of the |
| <a class="externalLink" href="https://creadur.apache.org">Apache Creadur</a> project, |
| a home for all sorts of software that helps audit and review |
| software distributions. |
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| <dt><a name="why">Why should I use the Maven plugin to run Apache Rat?</a></dt> |
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| <p>Because it makes running Rat trivial. Basically, you just |
| add the plugin to the <code>build/plugins</code> section |
| of your POM and run <code>mvn apache-rat:check</code>. Using Rat |
| cannot be simpler. |
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| The apache-rat-plugin creates a report for every subproject. |
| I want a single report for the whole project, which includes |
| the subprojects. |
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| <p>Set the configuration parameter "excludeSubProjects" |
| to false.</p> |
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| <dt><a name="customLicense">Can I use Rat to validate against a custom license header?</a></dt> |
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| <p>See <a href="examples/custom-license.html">this example</a> to see how.</p> |
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