From 987a5f8103b4537c5a506173a0584199101cfd77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Wilkinson <awilkinson@pivotal.io>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 09:39:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Recommend overriding licences and developers when using
 starter parent

Publishing to Maven Central requires spring-boot-starter-parent to
declare its license and developers. When a user then uses
spring-boot-starter-parent as their project's parent, these values
are inherited and this is almost certainly unwanted.

This commit updates the documentation to recommend and demonstrate
overriding the license and developers that are inherited from the
starter parent.

Closes gh-18532
---
 .../src/main/asciidoc/getting-started.adoc        | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/getting-started.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/getting-started.adoc
index 9ea183661e..cf9d4d2a37 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/getting-started.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/getting-started.adoc
@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ The following listing shows a typical `pom.xml` file:
 			<version>{spring-boot-version}</version>
 		</parent>
 
+		<!-- Override inherited license and developers -->
+		<licenses>
+ 			<license />
+ 		</licenses>
+ 		<developers>
+ 			<developer />
+ 		</developers>
+
 		<!-- Add typical dependencies for a web application -->
 		<dependencies>
 			<dependency>
@@ -462,6 +470,13 @@ Open your favorite text editor and add the following:
 			<version>{spring-boot-version}</version>
 		</parent>
 
+		<licenses>
+ 			<license />
+ 		</licenses>
+ 		<developers>
+ 			<developer />
+ 		</developers>
+
 		<!-- Additional lines to be added here... -->
 
 ifeval::["{spring-boot-artifactory-repo}" != "release"]