diff --git a/distro/INSTALL b/distro/INSTALL
deleted file mode 100644
index 139597f..0000000
--- a/distro/INSTALL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-
-
diff --git a/distro/LICENSE b/distro/LICENSE
index cdb5851..2d9616a 100644
--- a/distro/LICENSE
+++ b/distro/LICENSE
@@ -1,7 +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 21f820d..0000000
--- a/distro/MAINTAINERS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Mantainers
--------
-
-* Costantino Perciante (costantino.perciante@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, 
-  Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo".
-
diff --git a/distro/README b/distro/README
index 6b0b766..38d5603 100644
--- a/distro/README
+++ b/distro/README
@@ -1,3 +1,62 @@
-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), iMarine (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2),   
-and EUBrazilOpenBio (FP7-ICT-2011-EU-Brazil), Parthenos (H2020-INFRADEV-1-2014-1), BlueBridge (H2020-EINFRA-2015-1).  
\ No newline at end of file
+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
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+* Costantino Perciante (costantino.perciante@isti.cnr.it), Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR, Pisa (Italy).
+ 
+Maintainers
+-----------
+ 
+* Costantino Perciante (costantino.perciante@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:
+    ${gcube.issueTracking}
+ 
+ 
+Licensing
+--------------------------------------------------
+ 
+This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
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diff --git a/distro/descriptor.xml b/distro/descriptor.xml
index 4efc827..dc46ade 100644
--- a/distro/descriptor.xml
+++ b/distro/descriptor.xml
@@ -15,34 +15,16 @@
 			<includes>
 				<include>README</include>
 				<include>LICENSE</include>
-				<include>INSTALL</include>
-				<include>MAINTAINERS</include>
 				<include>changelog.xml</include>
 			</includes>
 			<fileMode>755</fileMode>
 			<filtered>true</filtered>
 		</fileSet>
-		<fileSet>
-			<directory>target/apidocs</directory>
-			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}/doc/api</outputDirectory>
-			<useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
-			<fileMode>755</fileMode>
-		</fileSet>
 	</fileSets>
 	<files>
 		<file>
-			<source>${distroDirectory}/profile.xml</source>
-			<outputDirectory>./</outputDirectory>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</file>
-		<file>
-			<source>target/${build.finalName}.war</source>
+			<source>target/${build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</source>
 			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
 		</file>
-		<file>
-			<source>${distroDirectory}/svnpath.txt</source>
-			<outputDirectory>/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
-			<filtered>true</filtered>
-		</file>
 	</files>
 </assembly>
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diff --git a/distro/svnpath.txt b/distro/svnpath.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index edacb04..0000000
--- a/distro/svnpath.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-${scm.url} 
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