diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 09d493eb6..60c7f65c0 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -26,10 +26,23 @@ The discovery providers are responsible for finding the available endpoint descr
 
 ## Releasing
 
+### Dry run the release
+
+```bash
+./mvnw clean release:prepare -DreleaseArguments="-DskipTests=true -Dbnd.testing.skip=true"  -DdryRun
+./mvnw release:perform -DreleaseArguments="-DskipTests=true -Dbnd.testing.skip=true"  -DdryRun
+# Check the generated poms and cleanup before real release
+git add .
+git reset --hard
+rm release.properties
+```
+
 ### Maven release
 
-    ./mvnw clean release:prepare -DskipTests -Darguments=-DskipTests
-    ./mvnw release:perform -DskipTests -Darguments=-DskipTests
+```bash
+./mvnw clean release:prepare -DreleaseArguments="-DskipTests=true -Dbnd.testing.skip=true"
+./mvnw release:perform -DreleaseArguments="-DskipTests=true -Dbnd.testing.skip=true"
+```
 
 This creates a staging repository. After all artifacts are deployed login to the [Apache maven repo](https://repository.apache.org) and close the staging repository.
 
diff --git a/discovery/mdns/pom.xml b/discovery/mdns/pom.xml
index e1d069d2a..e0b112b86 100644
--- a/discovery/mdns/pom.xml
+++ b/discovery/mdns/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  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.
+-->
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 0cf6c2a84..bac69e7b9 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -420,6 +420,58 @@
                     <failOnMissing>false</failOnMissing>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
+                <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>verify</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>check</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <reportFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.rat</reportFile>
+                    <excludeSubProjects>false</excludeSubProjects>
+                    <excludes>
+                        <exclude>**/target/**/*</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/appended-resources/**/*</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/dependency-reduced-pom.xml</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/velocity.log</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/DEPENDENCIES</exclude>
+                        <!-- exclude IntelliJ IDEA generated files -->
+                        <exclude>**/*.iml</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.ipr</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.iws</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/.idea/**/*</exclude>
+                        <!-- exclude Eclipse IDE generated files -->
+                        <exclude>**/.project</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/.classpath</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/.settings/**</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/eclipse-classes/**/*</exclude>
+                        <!-- manifest files don't support comments so don't contain the ASL2.0 header -->
+                        <exclude>**/*.MF</exclude>
+                        <!-- RAT doesn't recognize various licenses -->
+                        <exclude>**/xml.xsd</exclude>
+                        <exclude>.gitignore</exclude>
+                        <exclude>README.md</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.cfg</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/README.md</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/Readme.md</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/NOTICE.vm</exclude>
+                        <!-- Binary and generated files -->
+                        <exclude>**/*.proto</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.class</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.jar</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.zip</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.tar.gz</exclude>
+                        <!-- Properties files and generated files -->
+                        <exclude>**/*.properties</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/generated/**/*</exclude>
+                    </excludes>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 237c4c7b2..4742e4f14 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -58,17 +58,6 @@
         <module>itests</module>
     </modules>
 
-    <profiles>
-        <profile>
-            <id>rat</id>
-            <build>
-                <plugins>
-
-                </plugins>
-            </build>
-        </profile>
-    </profiles>
-
     <build>
         <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
         <plugins>
@@ -96,6 +85,7 @@
                         <autoVersionSubmodules>true</autoVersionSubmodules>
                         <mavenExecutorId>forked-path</mavenExecutorId>
                         <tagNameFormat>org.apache.aries.rsa-@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
+                        <arguments>-Daether.connector.basic.parallelPut=${releaseParallelPut} ${releaseArguments}</arguments>
                     </configuration>
                 </plugin>
             </plugins>
diff --git a/provider/tcp/src/test/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/provider/tcp/TcpProviderTLSTest.java b/provider/tcp/src/test/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/provider/tcp/TcpProviderTLSTest.java
index 7c6f80296..2efc01733 100644
--- a/provider/tcp/src/test/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/provider/tcp/TcpProviderTLSTest.java
+++ b/provider/tcp/src/test/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/provider/tcp/TcpProviderTLSTest.java
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * 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.aries.rsa.provider.tcp;
 
 import org.apache.aries.rsa.provider.tcp.myservice.MyService;
diff --git a/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADiscoveryProvider.java b/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADiscoveryProvider.java
index a8cf8f43b..c02771cfa 100644
--- a/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADiscoveryProvider.java
+++ b/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADiscoveryProvider.java
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * 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.aries.rsa.annotations;
 
 import org.osgi.annotation.bundle.Attribute;
diff --git a/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADistributionProvider.java b/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADistributionProvider.java
index cb732afe5..4adcc4e0c 100644
--- a/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADistributionProvider.java
+++ b/spi/src/main/java/org/apache/aries/rsa/annotations/RSADistributionProvider.java
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * 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.aries.rsa.annotations;
 
 import org.osgi.annotation.bundle.Attribute;