diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index d4f95bff07..91cbcafe79 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ redhat/default
 .externalToolBuilders/**
 test/data/serialization/*/*
 **/*.wpr
+conf/schema-sample.txt