Hi, According to the Apache Rat plugin docs the goal (1) to use to execute Rat is
mvn apache-rat:check in dev/bk-merge-pr.py I have recently added this check, in order to be sure to merge only rat and finbugs compliant commits mvn clean install -DskipTests findbugs:check rat:rat using 'rat' prefix instead of 'apache-rat' leads to executing the 'org.codehaus.mojo:rat-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-3:check goal' instead of 'apache-rat-plugin:0.12:check' I anyone can confirm that the good goal is apache-rat:check I will update the script as well -- Enrico [1] http://creadur.apache.org/rat/apache-rat-plugin/usage.html