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+# 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.
+
+name: RAT License Check
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.sha }}-${{ github.workflow }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+# No paths-ignore: this workflow must run for ALL changes including docs
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  rat-check:
+    name: RAT License Check
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Set up Java
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: temurin
+          java-version: 11
+      - name: Run RAT check
+        run: ./mvnw -B -N apache-rat:check