PIRK-9 -- Adding Apache Rat checks as part of project POM verify - closes apache/incubator-pirk#6
diff --git a/pom-with-benchmarks.xml b/pom-with-benchmarks.xml
index 8355b77..053898e 100644
--- a/pom-with-benchmarks.xml
+++ b/pom-with-benchmarks.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  ~ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
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+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 638247c..25a2a9c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  ~ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -235,6 +253,26 @@
 
 				</executions>
 			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
+				<artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>0.11</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<excludes>
+						<exclude>eclipse-pirk-codestyle.xml</exclude>
+						<exclude>logs/**</exclude>
+						<exclude>docs/package-list</exclude>
+					</excludes>
+				</configuration>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<phase>validate</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>check</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
 
 		<pluginManagement>
@@ -267,6 +305,25 @@
 										<ignore></ignore>
 									</action>
 								</pluginExecution>
+								<pluginExecution>
+								    <pluginExecutionFilter>
+								        <groupId>
+								            org.apache.rat
+								        </groupId>
+								        <artifactId>
+								            apache-rat-plugin
+								        </artifactId>
+								        <versionRange>
+								            [0.11,)
+								        </versionRange>
+								        <goals>
+								            <goal>check</goal>
+								        </goals>
+								    </pluginExecutionFilter>
+								    <action>
+								        <ignore></ignore>
+								    </action>
+								</pluginExecution>
 							</pluginExecutions>
 						</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
 					</configuration>