Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

Chapter 3
Getting ready
To set up team information in a POM, make sure you have a Maven project and have write
permissions to this file. The team information setup consists of:
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Licenses
Organization
Developers
Contributors
Make sure you have all this team meta information available before we proceed.
How to do it...
License information is entered in the POM file in the following structure:
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The licensing information can include the name, description, URL, and inception year along
with additional comments.
Adding license information inside the POM is important because it is likely that the license
purchased by a business would be a team license and individuals in the team would need this
information to get started. While teams can share this information on wikis and mailing lists, it
makes sense that the project POM file contains this information. After all, the underlying idea
of the POM file is that it contains all requisite information for that particular project and all you
should ever need is the source code, POM file, and an Apache Maven instance to get started.
Organization information can be set up in the following format:
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