diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index 725a305c01e1f..25fe61e5856f1 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ metastore_db
 .*csv
 CHANGELOG.txt
 .*zip
+.*lock
 # Apache Rat does not detect BSD-2 clause properly
 # it is compatible according to http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a
 kerberos_auth.py