From 40ccae0069c08490db8482e2b77e1196ce1c8e13 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 91dc43e..70d4c23 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -250,14 +250,14 @@ under the License.
           <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
           <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
           <configuration>
-            <excludes combine.children="append">
+            <inputExcludes>
               <!--
                 These files cannot contain a license header as that would break
                 the tests.
               -->
               <exclude>src/test/resources/ISO-8859-1.bin.vm</exclude>
               <exclude>src/test/resources/UTF-8.bin.vm</exclude>
-            </excludes>
+            </inputExcludes>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>