chore: improve Maven metadata during plugin publishing

[chadlwilson]

Improves the Maven POM metadata for published artifacts:

• partly to improve the dependabot reporting of changelogs, which right now can't link back to the repo tags/changelogs from release please, e.g Bump com.github.jk1:gradle-license-report from 3.0.1 to 3.1.1 in the gradle-deps group gocd/gocd-plugin-gradle-task-helpers#29
• partly to publish our own license in metadata, which we (ironically) do not

Main plugin metadata

via diff -C 20 old-main.pom ~/.m2/repository/com/github/jk1/gradle-license-report/3.1.1/gradle-license-report-3.1.1.pom

<*** old-main.pom	Wed Feb 18 17:41:08 2026
--- /Users/chad/.m2/repository/com/github/jk1/gradle-license-report/3.1.1/gradle-license-report-3.1.1.pom	Wed Feb 18 17:41:25 2026
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*** 1,13 ****
--- 1,43 ----
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <!-- This module was also published with a richer model, Gradle metadata,  -->
    <!-- which should be used instead. Do not delete the following line which  -->
    <!-- is to indicate to Gradle or any Gradle module metadata file consumer  -->
    <!-- that they should prefer consuming it instead. -->
    <!-- do_not_remove: published-with-gradle-metadata -->
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.github.jk1</groupId>
    <artifactId>gradle-license-report</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.1</version>
+   <name>Gradle dependency license report plugin</name>
+   <description>A plugin for generating reports about the licenses of the dependencies for your Gradle project</description>
+   <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report</url>
+   <licenses>
+     <license>
+       <name>Apache-2.0</name>
+       <url>https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</url>
+       <comments>Apache License, Version 2.0</comments>
+     </license>
+   </licenses>
+   <developers>
+     <developer>
+       <id>jk1</id>
+       <name>Evgeny Naumenko</name>
+       <email>[email protected]</email>
+     </developer>
+   </developers>
+   <scm>
+     <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report.git</connection>
+     <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report.git</developerConnection>
+     <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report</url>
+   </scm>
+   <issueManagement>
+     <system>GitHub</system>
+     <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report/issues</url>
+   </issueManagement>
+   <ciManagement>
+     <system>GitHub Actions</system>
+     <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report/actions</url>
+   </ciManagement>
  </project>

"Marker" artifact

via diff -C 20 marker-old.pom ~/.m2/repository/com/github/jk1/dependency-license-report/com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report.gradle.plugin/3.1.1/com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report.gradle.plugin-3.1.1.pom

$ diff -C 20 marker-old.pom  ~/.m2/repository/com/github/jk1/dependency-license-report/com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report.gradle.plugin/3.1.1/com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report.gradle.plugin-3.1.1.pom
*** marker-old.pom	Wed Feb 18 17:46:29 2026
--- /Users/chad/.m2/repository/com/github/jk1/dependency-license-report/com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report.gradle.plugin/3.1.1/com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report.gradle.plugin-3.1.1.pom	Wed Feb 18 17:46:42 2026
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--- 1,45 ----
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report</groupId>
    <artifactId>com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report.gradle.plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.1</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <name>Gradle dependency license report plugin</name>
    <description>A plugin for generating reports about the licenses of the dependencies for your Gradle project</description>
+   <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report</url>
+   <licenses>
+     <license>
+       <name>Apache-2.0</name>
+       <url>https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0</url>
+       <comments>Apache License, Version 2.0</comments>
+     </license>
+   </licenses>
+   <developers>
+     <developer>
+       <id>jk1</id>
+       <name>Evgeny Naumenko</name>
+       <email>[email protected]</email>
+     </developer>
+   </developers>
+   <scm>
+     <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report.git</connection>
+     <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report.git</developerConnection>
+     <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report</url>
+   </scm>
+   <issueManagement>
+     <system>GitHub</system>
+     <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report/issues</url>
+   </issueManagement>
+   <ciManagement>
+     <system>GitHub Actions</system>
+     <url>https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report/actions</url>
+   </ciManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.jk1</groupId>
        <artifactId>gradle-license-report</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.1</version>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </project>

[bdellegrazie]

@chadlwilson let me know if this is ready for merge.

[chadlwilson]

Yup, if it looks good to you 👍