diff --git a/applications/stream-applications-core/pom.xml b/applications/stream-applications-core/pom.xml
index e80a2e14..26a00e5d 100644
--- a/applications/stream-applications-core/pom.xml
+++ b/applications/stream-applications-core/pom.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         <maven-checkstyle-plugin.failOnViolation>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.failOnViolation>
         <maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>
         <puppycrawl-tools-checkstyle.version>8.29</puppycrawl-tools-checkstyle.version>
-        <checkstyle.location>${maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory}/etc/checkstyle</checkstyle.location>
+        <checkstyle.location>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/stream-applications/master/etc/checkstyle</checkstyle.location>
         <checkstyle.suppressions.file>
            ${checkstyle.location}/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
         </checkstyle.suppressions.file>
diff --git a/functions/pom.xml b/functions/pom.xml
index bbfb9f30..c0ec7657 100644
--- a/functions/pom.xml
+++ b/functions/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 		<maven-checkstyle-plugin.failOnViolation>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.failOnViolation>
 		<maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>
 		<puppycrawl-tools-checkstyle.version>8.29</puppycrawl-tools-checkstyle.version>
-		<checkstyle.location>${maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory}/etc/checkstyle</checkstyle.location>
+		<checkstyle.location>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/stream-applications/master/etc/checkstyle</checkstyle.location>
 		<checkstyle.suppressions.file>
 			${checkstyle.location}/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
 		</checkstyle.suppressions.file>