The license information for hibernate-jpa-2.0-api has no name, only an URL: "license.txt" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HIBERNATE-132 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HIBERNATE-132 Project: Hibernate Integration Issue Type: Feature Request Environment: Maven 3 Reporter: Alix Warnke Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Minor Labels: license Original Estimate: 1 hour Remaining Estimate: 1 hour Today in the pom-file of hibernate-jpa-2.0-api: <licenses> -<license> <url>license.txt</url> </license> </licenses> I would like it to say: <licenses> -<license> <name>Eclipse Public License, V 1.0</name> <url>license.txt</url> </license> </licenses> as this would help when using a license plugin to automatically validate against a whitelist of licenses. It is impossible for the maven plugin to know what "license.txt" is.