diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 8cbad002..11ef0f03 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@
         <filtering>true</filtering>
       </resource>
 
+      <!-- Use each module's own LICENSE.txt (e.g. Apache-2.0 for jcl-over-slf4j
+           and log4j-over-slf4j) rather than the repo-root MIT LICENSE. -->
       <resource>
-        <directory>..</directory>
+        <directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
         <targetPath>META-INF</targetPath>
         <includes>
           <include>LICENSE.txt</include>