diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e88b0c3..014e775 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ under the License.
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
       <scope>provided</scope>
-      </dependency>
+    </dependency>
   
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
@@ -143,7 +143,19 @@ under the License.
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
-
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
+        <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <excludes combine.children="append">
+            <exclude>src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/**/*.txt</exclude>
+          </excludes>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
 
   <profiles>
     <profile>
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/pom.xml b/src/it/reproducible/pom.xml
index e080fd5..214ea5e 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/pom.xml
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/pom.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
         <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <archive>
+            <!-- remove Maven descriptor pom.xml and pom.properties since they vary given platform line ending -->
+            <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
             <manifest>
               <!-- remove default entries since it contains "Created-By: Maven Source Plugin <current plugin version>"
                    which varies over time in this IT -->
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/Uppercase.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/Uppercase.txt
index 00ae6c0..f6a87c0 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/Uppercase.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/Uppercase.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+Uppercase
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A2.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A2.txt
index 00ae6c0..143e8fd 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A2.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A2.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+A2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A4.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A4.txt
index 00ae6c0..739b7df 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A4.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/A4.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+A4
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a1.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a1.txt
index ca0e172..59ef8d1 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a1.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a1.txt
@@ -1,34 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
-# 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.
-
+a1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a3.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a3.txt
index 00ae6c0..650b777 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a3.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-A/a3.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+a3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-C/C.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-C/C.txt
index 00ae6c0..96d80cd 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-C/C.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-C/C.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+C
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B2/B2.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B2/B2.txt
index 00ae6c0..42fbb5a 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B2/B2.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B2/B2.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+B2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B4/B4.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B4/B4.txt
index 00ae6c0..51bad54 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B4/B4.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/B4/B4.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+B4
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b.txt
index 00ae6c0..63d8dbd 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+b
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b1/b1.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b1/b1.txt
index 00ae6c0..611d987 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b1/b1.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b1/b1.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+b1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b3/b3.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b3/b3.txt
index 00ae6c0..2a7d289 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b3/b3.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-b/b3/b3.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+b3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-d/d.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-d/d.txt
index 00ae6c0..c59d9b6 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-d/d.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/dir-d/d.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+d
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/executable.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/executable.txt
index 00ae6c0..9268d74 100755
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/executable.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/executable.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+executable
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/lowercase.txt b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/lowercase.txt
index 00ae6c0..98dbf49 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/lowercase.txt
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/src/main/resources/lowercase.txt
@@ -1,17 +1 @@
-# 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.
-
+lowercase
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/it/reproducible/verify.groovy b/src/it/reproducible/verify.groovy
index a8261c2..bd8aa47 100644
--- a/src/it/reproducible/verify.groovy
+++ b/src/it/reproducible/verify.groovy
@@ -72,6 +72,4 @@ zipFile.close();
 String buf = r.toString()
 println buf
 
-String expectedSha1 = System.properties['os.name'].toLowerCase().contains( 'windows' ) ? '3fd3c6db6774db82e78bffc645930a186266e209' : 'bc56380204897bf99dea7849853a7d52f470e7d6'
-
-assert buf.startsWith( "reproducible-1.0-sources.jar sha1 = $expectedSha1" )
+assert buf.startsWith( "reproducible-1.0-sources.jar sha1 = c505d059e036128fae3fcdd265fa51e14d7ae241" )