diff --git a/etc/dev/check-licenses b/etc/dev/check-licenses
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-#
-# 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.
-#
-
-
-acquire_rat_jar () {
-
-  URL="http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/rat/apache-rat/${RAT_VERSION}/apache-rat-${RAT_VERSION}.jar"
-
-  JAR="$rat_jar"
-
-  # Download rat launch jar if it hasn't been downloaded yet
-  if [ ! -f "$JAR" ]; then
-    # Download
-    printf "Attempting to fetch rat\n"
-    JAR_DL="${JAR}.part"
-    if [ $(command -v curl) ]; then
-      curl -L --silent "${URL}" > "$JAR_DL" && mv "$JAR_DL" "$JAR"
-    elif [ $(command -v wget) ]; then
-      wget --quiet ${URL} -O "$JAR_DL" && mv "$JAR_DL" "$JAR"
-    else
-      printf "You do not have curl or wget installed, please install rat manually.\n"
-      exit -1
-    fi
-  fi
-
-  unzip -tq "$JAR" &> /dev/null
-  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then 
-    # We failed to download
-    rm "$JAR"
-    printf "Our attempt to download rat locally to ${JAR} failed. Please install rat manually.\n"
-    exit -1
-  fi
-}
-
-# Go to the project root directory
-FWDIR="$(cd "`dirname "$0"`"/..; pwd)"
-cd "$FWDIR"
-
-if test -x "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"; then
-    declare java_cmd="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
-else
-    declare java_cmd=java
-fi
-
-export RAT_VERSION=0.11
-export rat_jar="$FWDIR"/lib/apache-rat-${RAT_VERSION}.jar
-mkdir -p "$FWDIR"/lib
-
-[[ -f "$rat_jar" ]] || acquire_rat_jar || {
-    echo "Download failed. Obtain the rat jar manually and place it at $rat_jar"
-    exit 1
-}
-
-mkdir target
-$java_cmd -jar "$rat_jar" -E "$FWDIR"/dev/.rat-excludes -d "$FWDIR" > target/rat-results.txt
-
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-   echo "RAT exited abnormally"
-   exit 1
-fi
-
-ERRORS="$(cat target/rat-results.txt | grep -e "??")"
-
-if test ! -z "$ERRORS"; then 
-    echo "Could not find Apache license headers in the following files:"
-    echo "$ERRORS"
-    exit 1
-else 
-    echo -e "RAT checks passed."
-fi
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