https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat

Apache Creadur RAT - Release Audit Tool
https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat

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Apache Creadur RAT - Release Audit Tool

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat
• Owner: apache
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2012-10-11T07:00:29.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-12T13:48:11.000Z (10 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-12T14:31:51.819Z (10 days ago)
• Topics: apache, cli, creadur, java, licensechecker, maven, rat
• Language: Java
• Homepage: https://creadur.apache.org/
• Size: 17.6 MB
• Stars: 29
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 46
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## What is RAT?

Apache Rat is developed by the Apache Creadur project of the Apache Software

Foundation. Join us at https://creadur.apache.org and read more about Apache Rat

at https://creadur.apache.org/rat.

*Release Audit Tool (RAT)* is a tool to improve accuracy and efficiency when checking

releases. It is heuristic in nature: making guesses about possible problems. It

will produce false positives and cannot find every possible issue with a release.

Its reports require interpretation.

Rat was developed in response to a need felt in the Apache Incubator to be able to

review releases for the most common faults less labour intensively. It is therefore

highly tuned to the Apache style of releases.

Rat is intended to be self documenting: reports should include introductory material

describing their function. Building Rat describes how to run Rat. Running Rat

describes the options available. These release notes describe the current state of

Rat.

A good way to use Rat is to through the source. This allows the code base to be

easily patched for example to add new generated file matchers. The main jar is

runnable and self-documenting. This jar is available as a standard alone binary.

Rat includes a task library for Ant 1.7. This allows Rat reports to be run against

a wide variety of resources. See ant-task-examples.xml. To use the Ant tasks,

Apache Ant 1.7 is required. See https://ant.apache.org/.

For Maven builds, the plugin is recommended.

In response to demands from project quality tool developers, Rat is available as a

library (rat-lib jar) suitable for inclusion in tools. Note that binary compatibility

is not guaranteed between 0.x releases. The XML output format is not yet in its

final form and so library users are recommended to either use the supplied

stylesheets or keep in close touch with the code.

## License

  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more

  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with

  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.

  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0

  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with

  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  limitations under the License.

## Contribution

If you want to contribute, feel free to branch from master and provide a pull request via Github.

You should file a contributor license agreement in order to properly handle your input.

Apart from that you can file an issue in ASF's Jira: [project RAT](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT)