Re: [RAT][DISCUSS] document categorization.

[P. Ottlinger]

Hi,

Am 05.05.24 um 08:52 schrieb Claude Warren:

*Current state*

We attempt to provide a default configuration that is ASF requirements
based.

We currently categorize documents into one of six categories: Generated,
Unknown, Archive, Notice, Binary, Standard.

    - Standard documents get scanned for the presence or absence of license
    headers.
    - Archive documents may get scanned for the presence or absence of
    license headers.
    - Notice files are determined by file name [1]  and are excluded from
    processing

Cheers,
Phil

If I'm not mistaken the special handling for NOTICE files was introduced as there is a requirement to include these files into a JAR. Personally I wouldn't mind your changes as I never understood the special handling, but downstream users might use RAT's classification to ensure that a NOTICE file exists ....

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