diff --git a/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
index 4097d904..b4eb4350 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
+++ b/src/checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
 	<suppress files="package-info\.java" checks=".*" />
 	<suppress files="[\\/]test[\\/]" checks="RequireThis" />
 	<suppress files="[\\/]test[\\/]" checks="Javadoc*" />
+	<suppress files="[\\/]apache[\\/]" checks=".*" />
 </suppressions>