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Reviewing releases in the Apache Incubator by hand was error-prone and time-consuming.
Rat arises from the Apache style, but is used more widely. If your release style isn't supported, talk to us.
Apache Rat 0.9-SNAPSHOT ships with tooling for
Rat is extensible. If your build tool isn't supported, please contribute a patch or talk to us.
Rat aspires to be self documenting. Please contribute a patch or talk to us whenever Rat falls short.
Apache Rat is part of the Apache Creadur language- and build-agnostic suite of tools for auditing and comprehending software distributions. Our community develops open source software the Apache way.
Please feel free to contribute a patch, demonstrate an bug, or just talk to us. All welcome :-)
Use the plugin for Apache Maven 2.2.1 or later.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
</plugin>Read more here.