jbonofre commented on PR #166: URL: https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat/pull/166#issuecomment-1826606268
> Thanks for the contribution @jbonofre > > I'm still curious to get to know more details about why you want to scan in hidden directories? Can you provide more info about that. @ottlinger at ASF, we should have license header in all files included in project release source distributions (which is the minimum a project has to provide for each release). Some projects include hidden directories/iles in their source distributions (for instance, Apache Iceberg includes hidden directories like .palantir, .baseline, etc). Those directories/files can't be excluded else it means that it would not be possible to build the project from the source distribution. To be "clean", these directories/files have to include ASF/license headers and so they should be considered by RAT. As workaround, RAT gradle|maven plugins use a "custom" walker to scan hidden directories/files. So I think it makes sense to improve our default walker to support this behavior and so having the same support in CLI. That's basically the background :) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@creadur.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
