2009/6/14 Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>:
> Ross Gardler wrote:
>> 2009/6/12 Gavin <[email protected]>:
...

>>> http://ci.apache.org/projects/
>>
>> This shows that RAT is not all that useful right now unless properly
>> configured. I was intrigued to see that RAT itself has 85 unapproved
>> licences - http://ci.apache.org/projects/rat/rat-report.txt
>>
>> I'd say the first thing the RAT team need to do is get that down to 0.
>
> the problem is that a number of these are false positives (everything in
> target sub directories are just consequences of the build) or
> intentional (some of the tests for missing headers need to have no headers)

The includes/excludes needs setting up correctly to bring it down to
0. False positives will always be false positives to the developer
should add them to the excludes list. So, for example, the whole
target directory should be excluded.

Ross

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