diff --git a/build.gradle.kts.release b/build.gradle.kts.release
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+plugins {
+    // Apply the Java Gradle plugin development plugin to add support for developing Gradle plugins
+    checkstyle
+    `java-library`
+    `version-catalog`
+    `maven-publish`
+}
+
+val group: String by project
+val edcScmUrl: String by project
+val edcScmConnection: String by project
+
+allprojects {
+    apply(plugin = "checkstyle")
+    apply(plugin = "maven-publish")
+
+    // let's not generate any reports because that is done from within the GitHub Actions workflow
+    tasks.withType<Checkstyle> {
+        reports {
+            html.required.set(false)
+            xml.required.set(true)
+        }
+    }
+
+    tasks.withType<Jar> {
+        duplicatesStrategy = DuplicatesStrategy.INCLUDE
+        metaInf {
+            from("${rootProject.projectDir.path}/NOTICE.md")
+            from("${rootProject.projectDir.path}/LICENSE")
+        }
+    }
+
+    afterEvaluate {
+        // values needed for publishing
+        val websiteUrl: String by project
+        val developerId: String by project
+        val developerName: String by project
+        val developerEmail: String by project
+        val scmConnection: String by project
+        val scmUrl: String by project
+        publishing {
+            publications.forEach { i ->
+                val mp = (i as MavenPublication)
+                mp.pom {
+                    name.set(project.name)
+                    description.set("Runtime metamodel for annotations of the Eclipse Dataspace Components")
+                    url.set(websiteUrl)
+
+                    licenses {
+                        license {
+                            name.set("The Apache License, Version 2.0")
+                            url.set("http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt")
+                        }
+                        developers {
+                            developer {
+                                id.set(developerId)
+                                name.set(developerName)
+                                email.set(developerEmail)
+                            }
+                        }
+                        scm {
+                            connection.set(scmConnection)
+                            url.set(scmUrl)
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+// configure checkstyle version
+checkstyle {
+    toolVersion = "10.0"
+    maxErrors = 0 // does not tolerate errors
+}
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