On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Jochen Wiedmann
<jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ross, while I understand the "All it does" part I don't get the
> "dangerous" part.
>
> I think noone has ever announced RAT as a solution. It is a helper
> tool. I think the recommendation to use RAT (for what it offers) is
> just plainly right. Nothing more - nothing less.

I do agree. That's the reason for a lot of projects / podlings to use it

-Matthias

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> Jochen
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote:
>> I'm really worried about the growing meme that RAT is solving the IP 
>> management problem.
>>
>> It is not a solution, it is merely a tool that is useful for a very specific 
>> use case.
>>
>> All it does is do a pattern match for an Apache licence header in a bunch of 
>> files. It's really useful for checking the proper licensing of our source 
>> files.
>>
>> It does nothing else.
>>
>> Thinking RAT is helping the Incubator teach codlings how to manage IP is 
>> just plain dangerous.
>>
>> Ross
>>
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