Hi, One of the cumbersome parts of the release verification is "All files have license headers if necessary."
If we have a .rat-excludes file in each repository, the step can be quickly done with the command line. I filed a GH issue: https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-issues/issues/1613 Jozef mentioned that we should unify the approach (Thanks!), so I raise the topic in this ML. Please have a look at Jozef's comment about the existing initiatives for license check. https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-issues/issues/1613#issuecomment-2475467000 As written in the comment, we should choose one of them. - apache-rat-plugin - checkstyle.header.template - apache-rat java cli tool Personally, +1 for `apache-rat java cli tool` because it's not tied to maven projects and it's easy for the release verification step. Please share any thoughts on this. Thanks! Toshiya
