Improve inclusion mechanism of META-INF/LICENSE a bit

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -200,6 +200,11 @@
         <groupId>org.moditect</groupId>
         <artifactId>moditect-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
+      <!-- 03-Nov-2020, tatu: Add LICENSE from main level -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+      </plugin>
 
       <plugin>
         <groupId>de.jjohannes</groupId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Project: jackson-databind
 #2903: Allow preventing "Enum from integer" coercion using new `CoercionConfig` system
 #2909: `@JsonValue` not considered when evaluating inclusion
  (reported by chrylis@github)
+- Full "LICENSE" included in jar for easier access by compliancy tools
 
 2.12.0-rc1 (12-Oct-2020)
 

src/main/resources/META-INF/LICENSE

@@ -3,18 +3,15 @@
 Jackson is a high-performance, Free/Open Source JSON processing library.
 It was originally written by Tatu Saloranta ([email protected]), and has
 been in development since 2007.
-It is currently developed by a community of developers, as well as supported
-commercially by FasterXML.com.
+It is currently developed by a community of developers.
 
 ## Licensing
 
-Jackson core and extension components may be licensed under different licenses.
+Jackson 2.x core and extension components are licensed under Apache License 2.0
 To find the details that apply to this artifact see the accompanying LICENSE file.
-For more information, including possible other licensing options, contact
-FasterXML.com (http://fasterxml.com).
 
 ## Credits
 
-A list of contributors may be found from CREDITS file, which is included
+A list of contributors may be found from CREDITS(-2.x) file, which is included
 in some artifacts (usually source distributions); but is always available
 from the source code management (SCM) system project uses.