Hello devs,
since I didn’t find a user mailing list, I’m trying this one – apologies if
this is the wrong place.
I have problems excluding files from the license header check. As an example
I set up a new maven project. The only files included are the pom and
file_which_should_be_excluded.txt file with dummy content.
The pom looks like this:
<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>
<groupId>org.example</groupId>
<artifactId>rat-test</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.10-SNAPSHOT</version>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>file_which_should_be_excluded.txt</exclude>
<exclude>*.txt</exclude>
<exclude>pom.xml</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
To my understanding, there are no files left to check, but mvn rat:check
fails with:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal
org.codehaus.mojo:rat-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-3:check (default-cli) on
project rat-test: Too many unapproved licenses: 0 -> [Help 1]
The whole rat.txt is at http://pastebin.com/Gy44dGgC, I think the relevant
part is:
*****************************************************
Summary
-------
Notes: 0
Binaries: 0
Archives: 0
Standards: 2
Apache Licensed: 0
Generated Documents: 0
JavaDocs are generated and so license header is optional
Generated files do not required license headers
2 Unknown Licenses
*******************************
Why is it 2 Unknown Licenses? Shouldn't that be 0 because I specifically
excluded the 2 files? Or did I understand something wrong about the
exclusion?
Cheers,
Erik-Lân Do Dinh
