ATLAS-2954: Build failed with Rat check on Master Branch

pom.xml

@@ -2023,6 +2023,7 @@
                         <exclude>.gitignore</exclude>
                         <exclude>**/.idea/**</exclude>
                         <exclude>**/*.twiki</exclude>
+                        <exclude>**/*.md</exclude>
                         <exclude>**/*.iml</exclude>
                         <exclude>**/*.json</exclude>
                         <exclude>**/*.log</exclude>