It is a nice way for comprehending and auditing for distributions and source code.
RAT stands for Release Audit Tool.
Here are some key features of "Apache RAT":
· It is heuristic in nature: making guesses about possible problems.
· It will produce false positives and cannot find every possible issue with a release.
· It's reports require interpretation.
· Intended to be self documenting.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The Antlib and Maven plugins now provide simpler ways to detect licenses not directly supported by RAT.