nchammas commented on PR #44647:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/44647#issuecomment-1892653587

   FYI - I am checking upstream with the RAT devs to see if we can improve how 
the tool works. Having RAT scan `docs/` triggers a lot of spurious failures 
that are tedious to sort out.
   
   Because we use the CLI and not the Maven plugin (some [history here][1]), 
RAT does not automatically look at our `.gitignore` files. And the RAT exclude 
file patterns are regular expressions and not wildcard expressions, which I 
find confusing. (I think I am not alone on this point, judging from some of the 
lines in `.rat-excludes`.)
   
   I am following [RAT-323][r1] and [RAT-352][r2] to see if RAT will get some 
usability improvements for the CLI in the near future.
   
   [1]: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/125#issuecomment-37327013
   [r1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-323
   [r2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-352


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