diff --git a/distro/INSTALL b/distro/INSTALL
deleted file mode 100644
index 8051b5f..0000000
--- a/distro/INSTALL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The war package should be deployed in a tomcat container webapps folder
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distro/LICENSE b/distro/LICENSE
index 630ba97..2d9616a 100644
--- a/distro/LICENSE
+++ b/distro/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1 @@
-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.
+${gcube.license}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/distro/MAINTAINERS b/distro/MAINTAINERS
deleted file mode 100644
index fab7146..0000000
--- a/distro/MAINTAINERS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-### MAINTAINERS
-
-* Andrea  manzi (andrea.manzi@cern.ch), CERN Geneva
-* Mangiacrapa Francesco (francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo"
diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
index 1e5465b..23e834c 100644
--- a/distro/README
+++ b/distro/README
@@ -1,34 +1,60 @@
-The gCube System - The Data transfer URI resolver
-------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-This work has been partially supported by the following European projects: 
-DILIGENT (FP6-2003-IST-2), 
-D4Science (FP7-INFRA-2007-1.2.2), 
-D4Science-II (FP7-INFRA-2008-1.2.2), i
-Marine (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2), and 
-EUBrazilOpenBio (FP7-ICT-2011-EU-Brazil).
-
+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
--------
-
-Andrea Manzi CERN
-Francesco Mangiacrapa ISTI-CNR Italy
-
-Version and Release Date
-------------------------
-
-v. 1.3, 28/04/2015
-
-Description
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa-AT-isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy). 
+ 
+Maintainers
 -----------
-
+ 
+* Francesco Mangiacrapa (francesco.mangiacrapa-AT-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
+--------------------------------------------------
 
+ 
 Documentation 
--------------
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Documentation is available on-line in the gCube Wiki:
+    ${gcube.wikiRoot}/URI_Resolver
+ 
+Support 
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+Bugs and support requests can be reported in the gCube issue tracking tool:
+    ${gcube.issueTracking}
+ 
+ 
 Licensing
----------
-
-This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
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diff --git a/distro/svnpath.txt b/distro/svnpath.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f416f9d..0000000
--- a/distro/svnpath.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-${scm.url} 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index da0fcbf..3641b83 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 	<artifactId>uri-resolver</artifactId>
 	<version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<packaging>war</packaging>
+	<description>The URI Resolver is an HTTP URI resolver implemented as an HTTP servlet which gives access trough HTTP to different protocols URIs. </description>
 
 	<properties>
 		<distroDirectory>distro</distroDirectory>