diff --git a/distro/LICENSE b/distro/LICENSE
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-gCube System - License
-------------------------------------------------------------
-
-The gCube/gCore software is licensed as Free Open Source software conveying to
-the EUPL (http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/eupl).
-The software and documentation is provided by its authors/distributors "as is"
-and no expressed or implied warranty is given for its use, quality or fitness 
-for a particular case.
diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
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-The gCube System - Ecological Engine Library
-------------------------------------------------------------
-
-This work is partially funded by the European Commission in the
-context of the D4Science project (www.d4science.eu), under the 
-1st call of FP7 IST priority.
-
-Authors
--------
-
-* Gianpaolo Coro (gianpaolo.coro@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa,
-  Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo"
-  
- * Angela Italiano (angela.italiano@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa,
-  Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo"
-
-Version and Release Date
-------------------------
-
-version 1.1.7 (23-09-2015)  
-
-Description
---------------------
-
-Support library for statistics analysis on Time Series data.
-
-
-Download information
---------------------
-
-Source code is available from SVN:
-https://svn.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/gcube/branches/data-analysis/EcologicalEngineExternalAlgorithms/1.1/
-
-Binaries can be downloaded from:
-http://software.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/
-
-Documentation 
--------------
-VREManager documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:
-https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/Ecological_Modeling
-
-Licensing
----------
-
-This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
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-<ReleaseNotes xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="xsd/changelog.xsd">
-	<Changeset component="org.gcube.data-analysis.ecological-engine-external-algorithms.1-0-0"
-		date="2013-03-19">
-		<Change>First Release</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="${build.finalName}" date="2013-07-22">
-		<Change>Add TrendyLyzer algorithms and species/taxa procedures </Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="${build.finalName}" date="2013-10-22">
-		<Change>Fix problem in species/taxa procedures </Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="${build.finalName}" date="2014-09-05">
-		<Change>Geothermal analysis </Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="${build.finalName}" date="2015-06-30">
-		<Change>Introducing average annual precipitation</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-	<Changeset component="${build.finalName}" date="2015-09-23">
-		<Change>Adding algorithms by univ Brazil</Change>
-	</Changeset>
-</ReleaseNotes>
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-<assembly
-	xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
-	<id>servicearchive</id>
-	<formats>
-		<format>tar.gz</format>
-	</formats>
-	<baseDirectory>/</baseDirectory>
-	<fileSets>
-		<fileSet>
-			<directory>${distroDirectory}</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-			<useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
-			<includes>
-				<include>README</include>
-				<include>LICENSE</include>
-				<include>INSTALL</include>
-				<include>MAINTAINERS</include>
-				<include>changelog.xml</include>
-			</includes>
-			<fileMode>755</fileMode>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</fileSet>
-	</fileSets>
-	<files>
-		<file>
-			<source>${distroDirectory}/profile.xml</source>
-			<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</file>
-		<file>
-			<source>target/${build.finalName}.jar</source>
-			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
-		</file>
-		<file>
-			<source>${distroDirectory}/svnpath.txt</source>
-			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</file>
-	</files>
-</assembly>
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
-	<ID></ID>
-	<Type>Library</Type>
-	<Profile>
-		<Description>Ecological Engine Library</Description>
-		<Class>EcologicalEngineExternalAlgorithms</Class>
-	<Name>${artifactId}</Name>
-		<Version>1.1.1</Version>
-		<Packages>
-			<Software>
-				<Name>${artifactId}</Name>
-				<Version>${version}</Version>
-				<MavenCoordinates>
-					<groupId>${groupId}</groupId>
-					<artifactId>${artifactId}</artifactId>
-					<version>${version}</version>
-				</MavenCoordinates>
-				<Files>
-					<File>${build.finalName}.jar</File>
-				</Files>
-			</Software>
-		</Packages>
-	</Profile>
-</Resource>
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