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| <h2><a name="About_Apache_Rat"></a>About Apache Rat</h2> |
| <p>Rat audits software distributions, with a special interest in headers. If this isn't quite what you're looking for then take a look at the other products developed by <a class="externalLink" href="http://creadur.apache.org">Apache Creadur</a>, including <a class="externalLink" href="http://creadur.apache.org/whisker">Apache Whisker</a> which audits and generates legal (for example <tt>LICENSE</tt>) documents for complex software distributions.</p></div> |
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| <h3><a name="Introducing_the_Modules"></a>Introducing the Modules</h3> |
| <p>This module, <tt>apache-rat-core</tt>, is a library containing the basic engine. Other modules allow this engine to be run in various ways.</p> |
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