When these are added to the exclusions: <exclude name="**/*.pass" /> <exclude name="**/*.pass2" /> <exclude name="**/*.list" /> <exclude name="**/src/META-INF/**" /> <exclude name="**/binaries-list" />
...the Rat report lists 6540 problematic files, instead of 9164, which is the current number. Gj On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Following on from the additional Rat excludes by jlahoda: > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/4 > > I'd like to propose several others be excluded via Rat, since these are > IMHO files "without any degree of creativity" ( > https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html) and thus do not require a > license header: > > - .list files > - META-INF/services files > - .pass files > - binaries-list files > > The above are all documented here with the question whether they have any > degree of creativity: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/ > NetBeans+Transition+Process > > They're all simple registration files of one type or another and do not > qualify IMHO as having any degree of creativity. > > Comments? > > Thanks, > > Gj >
