diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4dc03bc..95a57fb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@
       <email>calavera@apache.org</email>
     </developer>
   </developers>
+  
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>The MIT license</name>
+      <url>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
 
   <scm>
     <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/jenkinsci/rake-plugin.git</connection>