diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 576e81afc..96592a823 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,20 +1,4 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~      Copyright (C) 2015  chronicle.software
-  ~
-  ~      This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-  ~      it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
-  ~      the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.
-  ~
-  ~      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  ~      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  ~      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  ~      GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
-  ~
-  ~      You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
-  ~      along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses />.
-  -->
-
 <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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
     <parent>