Remove license-maven-plugin as it is not longer required with spotless plugin

Author: stefanseifert

parent_toplevel/changes.xml

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
       <action type="update" dev="sseifert">
         Update testing dependencies.
       </action>
+      <action type="remove" dev="sseifert">
+        Remove license-maven-plugin as it is not longer required with spotless plugin.
+      </action>
     </release>
 
     <release version="2.1.2" date="2025-11-17">

parent_toplevel/pom.xml

@@ -178,20 +178,6 @@
     </extensions>
     <plugins>
 
-      <!-- license check -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>check-file-header</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <phase>validate</phase>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-
       <!-- GitFlow settings only for this POM -->
       <plugin>
         <groupId>com.amashchenko.maven.plugin</groupId>
@@ -319,20 +305,6 @@
     <pluginManagement>
       <plugins>
 
-        <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-          <artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-          <configuration>
-            <licenseName>apache_v2</licenseName>
-            <addJavaLicenseAfterPackage>false</addJavaLicenseAfterPackage>
-            <projectName>wcm.io</projectName>
-            <excludes>
-              <exclude>**/*.json</exclude>
-              <exclude>**/*.html</exclude>
-            </excludes>
-          </configuration>
-        </plugin>
-
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>