diff --git a/distro/LICENSE b/distro/LICENSE
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-${gcube.license}
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diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
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-The gCube System - ${name}
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-${description}
- 
- 
-${gcube.description}
- 
-${gcube.funding}
- 
- 
-Version
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-${version} (${buildDate})
- 
-Please see the file named "changelog.xml" in this directory for the release notes.
- 
- 
-Authors
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-* Massimiliano Assante (massimiliano.assante@isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy).
- 
-Maintainers
------------
- 
-* Massimiliano Assante (massimiliano.assante@isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy).
- 
-Download information
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Source code is available from SVN: 
-    ${scm.url}
- 
-Binaries can be downloaded from the gCube website: 
-   ${gcube.website}
- 
- 
-Installation
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Installation documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
-    ${gcube.wikiRoot} 
- 
-Documentation 
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
-    ${gcube.wikiRoot}
- 
-Support 
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-Bugs and support requests can be reported in the gCube issue tracking tool:
-    ${gcube.issueTracking}
- 
- 
-Licensing
---------------------------------------------------
- 
-This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
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diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
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-<ReleaseNotes>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.3-3-0"
-		date="2017-05-16">
-		<Change>Ported to Java8</Change>
-		<Change>Added support for template emails</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.3-2-0"
-		date="2016-11-23">
-		<Change>Removed ASL Session dependency</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.3-1-0"
-		date="2016-09-23">
-		<Change>Added leave VRE option feature</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.3-0-0"
-		date="2016-07-15">
-		<Change>Added possibility for VRE Manager to edit VRE Abstract text
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Restyled and ported to Liferay 6.2</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.2-7-0"
-		date="2015-09-28">
-		<Change>Restyled for new 3 col theme</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.2-6-0"
-		date="2015-05-13">
-		<Change>Ported to GWT 2.7.0</Change>
-		<Change>Added show more option when VRE Description is too long
-		</Change>
-		<Change>Added client scope handler for preventing back button cache
-			problems
-		</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.2-5-0"
-		date="2014-11-13">
-		<Change>Restyled button positions</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.2-4-0"
-		date="2014-09-16">
-		<Change>Added possibility for users to leave a VRE, if the VRE is not
-			mandatory to belong to
-		</Change>
-		<Change>VRE Managers get notified whenever a user leave a VRE</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.2-3-0"
-		date="2014-06-06">
-		<Change>Ported to Feather Weight Stack Portal</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.gcube-loggedin-portlet.2-2-0"
-		date="2013-10-21">
-		<Change>Ported to Feather Weight Stack</Change>
-		<Change>Removed GCF Dependency</Change>
-		<Change>Logging with sl4j Enabled</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-</ReleaseNotes>
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diff --git a/distro/descriptor.xml b/distro/descriptor.xml
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-<assembly
-	xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
-	<id>servicearchive</id>
-	<formats>
-		<format>tar.gz</format>
-	</formats>
-	<baseDirectory>/</baseDirectory>
-	<fileSets>
-		<fileSet>
-			<directory>${distroDirectory}</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-			<useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
-			<includes>
-				<include>README</include>
-				<include>LICENSE</include>
-				<include>changelog.xml</include>
-				<include>profile.xml</include>
-			</includes>
-			<fileMode>755</fileMode>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</fileSet>
-	</fileSets>
-	<files>
-		<file>
-			<source>target/${build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</source>
-			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
-		</file>
-	</files>
-</assembly>
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