diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3bf2b2ec9469946d08735e3c75adaf1709e51656..3c54992e5508fff6076fee369df6d5b0c7535cb0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
   limitations under the License.
 -->
 
-<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">
+<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"
+>
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
 	<groupId>org.genesys-pgr</groupId>
@@ -720,6 +722,30 @@
 					</attributes>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+				<artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>1.9</version>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<id>license-download</id>
+						<phase>generate-resources</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>download-licenses</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+					<execution>
+						<id>license-third-party</id>
+						<phase>generate-sources</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>add-third-party</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+				<configuration>
+					<sortArtifactByName>true</sortArtifactByName>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
 		<resources>
 			<resource>
@@ -733,6 +759,10 @@
 				</includes>
 				<filtering>true</filtering>
 			</resource>
+			<resource>
+				<directory>${project.build.directory}/generated-resources</directory>
+				<filtering>false</filtering>
+			</resource>
 		</resources>
 		<pluginManagement>
 			<plugins>
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/genesys2/server/test/LicensesTest.java b/src/test/java/org/genesys2/server/test/LicensesTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..236e25b5e28cd88f871d10b43fb1849c359fe173
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/genesys2/server/test/LicensesTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Global Crop Diversity Trust
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.genesys2.server.test;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class LicensesTest {
+
+	@Test
+	public void test3rdPartyRead() throws IOException {
+		try (InputStream is = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("THIRD-PARTY.txt")) {
+			String thirdParty = IOUtils.toString(is, Charset.forName("UTF8"));
+			assertThat("THIRD-PARTY.txt could not be read", thirdParty, not(nullValue()));
+			
+			Pattern licenseInfo = Pattern.compile("^ {5}\\(((?:\\([^\\)]+\\)|[^\\)])+)\\) (\\(.+\\) )*(.+) \\((.+):(.+):(.+) \\- (.+)\\)$", Pattern.MULTILINE);
+			Matcher m = licenseInfo.matcher(thirdParty);
+			while (m.find()) {
+				String license = m.group(1);
+				String license2 = m.group(2);
+				String project = m.group(3);
+				String groupId = m.group(4);
+				String artifactId = m.group(5);
+				String version = m.group(6);
+				String url = m.group(7);
+				System.err.println(project + " url=" + url + " license=" + license + " art=" + artifactId + "@" + version);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+}