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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:53:42 +1000
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Question about using Rat and the potential to create "accepted
 exceptions"
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Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> You didn't tell us, how you are using Rat:
> 
>  . Maven Plugin: Use the excludes and/or includes properties, see
> 
>       http://creadur.apache.org/rat/apache-rat-plugin/check-mojo.html
> 
> - Ant Tasks: The rat-report task uses a standard Ant fileset to specify files
>   that are being checked. These can contain nested excludes specifications:
> 
>      http://creadur.apache.org/rat/apache-rat-plugin/check-mojo.html

Also an example of using the Ant task for RAT directly (no maven)
to provide a separate "excludesfile" file with various patterns
to exclude:
Re: RAT running nicely against Forrest with excludes
http://s.apache.org/jmd

-David

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Chip Childers
> <chip.childers@sungard.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm working with the CloudStack (Incubating) project to sort through
> > our licensing issues.  Specifically, we are using Rat to help us
> > identify source files with missing ASF license headers.
> >
> > It's a great tool, so let me first extend my thanks to this community
> > for creating it!
> >
> > I'm dealing with a situation now, where I'd like to be able to
> > configure Rat to have "accepted exceptions".  An example of this is
> > that we are storing Debian packaging files in the repo.
> > Unfortunately, Debian packaging files for binary packages aren't
> > allowed to have any comments in them.  Other examples include keys,
> > certificates, etc...
> >
> > Is there a method to tell Rat to exclude certain files in it's analysis?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any advice / direction / suggestions.
> >
> > -chip