diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 87b4011..c05d450 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -34,11 +34,26 @@
     <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/commons-skin/trunk/</developerConnection>
     <url>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/commons-skin/trunk/</url>
   </scm>
+
   <build>
     <resources>
       <resource>
         <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
       </resource>
     </resources>
+
+    <plugins>
+      <!-- Configure assembly plugin so that mvn deploy works -->
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <descriptors>
+            <descriptor>src/main/assembly/src.xml</descriptor>
+          </descriptors>
+          <tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/src.xml b/src/main/assembly/src.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3fc02fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/assembly/src.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+<assembly
+  xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
+  <id>src</id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>tar.gz</format>
+    <format>zip</format>
+  </formats>
+  <baseDirectory>${artifactId}-${version}-src</baseDirectory>
+  <fileSets>
+    <fileSet>
+      <includes>
+        <include>LICENSE*</include>
+        <include>NOTICE*</include>
+        <include>pom.xml</include>
+      </includes>
+    </fileSet>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>src</directory>
+    </fileSet>
+  </fileSets>
+</assembly>