diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 2ca826bfb99..05ff9d16826 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1250,6 +1250,8 @@ Release 0.23.6 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-9105. FsShell -moveFromLocal erroneously fails (daryn via bobby)
 
+    HADOOP-9097. Maven RAT plugin is not checking all source files (tgraves)
+
 Release 0.23.5 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index a4f7ceabc00..fe17808738d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -445,10 +445,11 @@
             <exclude>dev-support/jdiff/**</exclude>
             <exclude>src/main/native/*</exclude>
             <exclude>src/main/native/config/*</exclude>
-            <exclude>src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityInfo</exclude>
             <exclude>src/main/native/m4/*</exclude>
             <exclude>src/test/empty-file</exclude>
             <exclude>src/test/all-tests</exclude>
+            <exclude>src/test/resources/kdc/ldif/users.ldif</exclude>
+            <exclude>src/main/native/src/org/apache/hadoop/io/compress/lz4/lz4.c</exclude>
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/config.h.cmake b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/config.h.cmake
index 7423de73a82..e720d306570 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/config.h.cmake
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/config.h.cmake
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+/**
+* 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.
+*/
 #ifndef CONFIG_H
 #define CONFIG_H
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityInfo b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityInfo
index 5295f3be2fe..f7f3ec255df 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityInfo
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityInfo
@@ -1 +1,14 @@
+#
+#   Licensed 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.
+#
 org.apache.hadoop.security.AnnotatedSecurityInfo
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestDelegationTokenRenewer.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestDelegationTokenRenewer.java
index 3f1d34e99b7..5bd94c3ef43 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestDelegationTokenRenewer.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestDelegationTokenRenewer.java
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+/**
+* 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.
+*/
 package org.apache.hadoop.fs;
 
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier
index 891a67b61f4..56eab0553d2 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/resources/META-INF/services/org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier
@@ -1,2 +1,15 @@
+#
+#   Licensed 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.
+#
 org.apache.hadoop.ipc.TestSaslRPC$TestTokenIdentifier
 org.apache.hadoop.security.token.delegation.TestDelegationToken$TestDelegationTokenIdentifier
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/pom.xml
index 2ee82dd7500..a09c29b67a2 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/pom.xml
@@ -49,9 +49,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <includes>
-            <include>pom.xml</include>
-          </includes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
diff --git a/hadoop-dist/pom.xml b/hadoop-dist/pom.xml
index db0412fe46a..2e03c0ebab0 100644
--- a/hadoop-dist/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-dist/pom.xml
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <includes>
-            <include>pom.xml</include>
-          </includes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml
index 0d936c9f0c1..a5c44431810 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed 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.
+-->
 
 <!-- Do not modify this file directly. Anything that need to be overwritten,
      need to be done so, through -D switches or customized conf -->
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/appendix.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/appendix.xml
index 84662c076c7..49e8e3a0759 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/appendix.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/appendix.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed 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.
+-->
 <document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/xdoc-2.0.xsd">
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/architecture.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/architecture.xml
index 18c49259ae7..fd536c7290b 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/architecture.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/architecture.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed 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.
+-->
 <document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/xdoc-2.0.xsd">
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/cli.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/cli.xml
index e4eccd54878..f35038f85a5 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/cli.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/cli.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed 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.
+-->
 <document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/xdoc-2.0.xsd">
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index 27108a7dcef..62e48fce8b5 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed 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.
+-->
 <document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/xdoc-2.0.xsd">
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/usage.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/usage.xml
index a72ec05418e..208b0b7df94 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/usage.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/site/xdoc/usage.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed 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.
+-->
 <document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/XDOC/2.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/xdoc-2.0.xsd">
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml
index 016edf27ed1..64485f11f87 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+<!--
+  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+
+  Licensed 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.
+-->
 
 <configuration>
 
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word-part.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word-part.xml
index b552a1ccd76..5425de205bb 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word-part.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word-part.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+   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.
+-->
+
 <configuration>
 
 <property>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word.xml
index ed727ddf333..9d1cd572dc3 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/examples/conf/word.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+   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.
+-->
+
 <configuration>
 
 <property>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-gdb-commands.txt b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-gdb-commands.txt
index 6cfd4d6d121..906522c73c3 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-gdb-commands.txt
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-gdb-commands.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+#   Licensed 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.
 info threads
 backtrace
 quit
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-script b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-script
index e7f59e5f6f5..6bacc437e43 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-script
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-pipes/src/main/native/pipes/debug/pipes-default-script
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+#   Licensed 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.
 core=`find . -name 'core*'`
 #Only pipes programs have 5th argument as program name.
 gdb -quiet $5 -c $core -x $HADOOP_PREFIX/src/c++/pipes/debug/pipes-default-gdb-commands.txt 
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/anonymization/WordList.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/anonymization/WordList.java
index f160fcfab77..10b8d84852e 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/anonymization/WordList.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/anonymization/WordList.java
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+/**
+* 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.
+*/
 package org.apache.hadoop.tools.rumen.anonymization;
 
 import java.util.HashMap;
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-tools-dist/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-tools-dist/pom.xml
index 951eab139c5..cbd0bb545a2 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-tools-dist/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-tools-dist/pom.xml
@@ -91,9 +91,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <includes>
-            <include>pom.xml</include>
-          </includes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/pom.xml
index bc75e2b6536..f6fada59ac1 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/pom.xml
@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <includes>
-            <include>pom.xml</include>
-          </includes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0d97191b955..43dd1525aec 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -294,12 +294,14 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <includes>
-            <include>dev-support/*</include>
-            <include>pom.xml</include>
-          </includes>
-        </configuration>
+       <configuration>
+          <excludes>
+            <exclude>.gitattributes</exclude>
+            <exclude>.gitignore</exclude>
+            <exclude>.git/**</exclude>
+            <exclude>.idea/**</exclude>
+         </excludes>
+       </configuration>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>