diff --git a/.github/workflows/CI.yaml b/.github/workflows/CI.yaml
index 1364acc4..37fce061 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/CI.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/CI.yaml
@@ -47,11 +47,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: "3.11"
       - name: Lint codes
-        run: |
-          make poetry
-          poetry install --all-extras --with lint
-          make gen
-          make lint
+        run: make env lint
 
   # Check if the plugin doc is generated correctly
   plugin-doc-check:
diff --git a/.licenserc.yaml b/.licenserc.yaml
index 736e4edc..4c2d3747 100644
--- a/.licenserc.yaml
+++ b/.licenserc.yaml
@@ -32,5 +32,6 @@ header:
     - '**/*.json'
     - '.venv'
     - 'poetry.lock'
+    - '**/*.txt'
 
   comment: on-failure
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 29be0869..3fae3a57 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ env: poetry gen
 	poetry install --all-extras
 	poetry run pip install --upgrade pip
 
+# The lint group is kept out of `env` on purpose: `unify` (and its `untokenize`
+# dependency) are unmaintained and their sdists fail to build on Python >= 3.12,
+# so installing them would break `make env` on the newer interpreters.
+.PHONY: env-lint
+env-lint:
+	poetry install --only lint
+
 .PHONY: poetry poetry-fallback
 # poetry installer may not work on macOS's default python
 # falls back to pipx installer
@@ -69,13 +76,13 @@ install: gen-basic
 
 .PHONY: lint
 # flake8 configurations should go to the file setup.cfg
-lint: clean
+lint: env-lint clean gen
 	poetry run flake8 .
 	poetry run pylint --disable=all --enable=E0602,E0603,E1101 skywalking tests
 
 .PHONY: fix
 # fix problems described in CodingStyle.md - verify outcome with extra care
-fix:
+fix: env-lint
 	poetry run unify -r --in-place .
 	poetry run flynt -tc -v .