elharo opened a new issue, #11800:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/issues/11800
### Affected version
HEAD
### Bug description
Looks like it's checking files it shouldn't, possibly gitignored files
```
[INFO]
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[INFO] Reactor Summary for Apache Maven 4.1.0-SNAPSHOT:
[INFO]
[INFO] Apache Maven ....................................... SUCCESS [ 4.670
s]
[INFO] Maven 4 API ........................................ FAILURE [ 0.196
s]
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Meta annotations .................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Dependency Injection ................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: XML ................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Model ............................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Plugin .............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Settings ............................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Toolchain ........................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Repository Metadata ................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: Core ................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: SPI ................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API :: CLI ................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 Implementation Modules ..................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 XML Implementation ......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 Model Support .............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 Dependency Injection ....................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 JLine integration .......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 Logging .................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 API Implementation ......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Compatibility Modules ........................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Artifact ..................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Model ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Builder Support (deprecated) ................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Model Builder (deprecated) ................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 3 Plugin API ................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Repository Metadata Model .................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Settings ..................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Toolchain Model .............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Toolchain Builder (deprecated) ............... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 Core ....................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Settings Builder (deprecated) ................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Artifact Resolver Provider (deprecated) ...... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Compat (deprecated) .......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 CLI ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Plugin Testing Mechanism ..................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven Embedder (deprecated) ........................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache Maven Distribution .......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Maven 4 Executor ................................... SKIPPED
[INFO]
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO]
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[INFO] Total time: 5.006 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2026-03-14T17:52:44-04:00
[INFO]
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:0.16.1:check
(rat-check) on project maven-api: Too many files with unapproved license: 26
See RAT report in: /Users/elharo/maven/api/target/rat.txt -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
```
```
[WARNING] Files with unapproved licenses:
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/checkstyle-cachefile
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/checkstyle-result.xml
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/maven-status/maven-compiler-plugin/compile/default-compile/inputFiles.lst
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/maven-status/maven-compiler-plugin/compile/default-compile/createdFiles.lst
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/plugins.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/distribution-management.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/issue-management.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/team.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/index.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/project-info.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/dependency-info.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/css/site.css
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/js/apache-maven-fluido-1.11.2.min.js
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/plugin-management.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/mailing-lists.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/ci-management.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/dependency-convergence.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/scm.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/site/summary.html
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/spotless-index
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/target/.plxarc
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/.classpath
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/.settings/org.eclipse.m2e.core.prefs
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
/Users/elharo/maven/api/maven-api-meta/.project
```
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