From dd00210214483bd284e925f3636afa8d6099e4ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Slawomir Jaranowski <s.jaranowski@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:51:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use inputExcludes instead of the deprecated excludes

The excludes parameter is deprecated for removal since RAT 0.17.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 pom.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 224b67fb..1384ace8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -363,12 +363,12 @@ under the License.
           <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
           <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
           <configuration>
-            <excludes combine.children="append">
+            <inputExcludes>
               <!--
                 This is a plugin-specific data file that must only contain the file names of available resources.
               -->
               <exclude>src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/report/projectinfo/resources/resources.txt</exclude>
-            </excludes>
+            </inputExcludes>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>