diff --git a/m2-settings.xml b/m2-settings.xml
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--- a/m2-settings.xml
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-<!--
-  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.
--->
-<settings xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
-    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
-  <!--<localRepository>repo</localRepository>-->
-  <servers>
-    <server>
-      <username>admin</username>
-      <id>central</id>
-    </server>
-    <server>
-      <username>admin</username>
-      <id>snapshots</id>
-    </server>
-  </servers>
-  <profiles>
-    <profile>
-      <repositories>
-        <repository>
-          <snapshots>
-            <enabled>false</enabled>
-          </snapshots>
-          <id>repo1</id>
-          <name>repo1</name>
-          <url>http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
-        </repository>
-        <repository>
-          <snapshots>
-            <enabled>false</enabled>
-          </snapshots>
-          <id>central</id>
-          <name>libs-release</name>
-          <url>http://cs.ibuildthecloud.com/artifactory/libs-release</url>
-        </repository>
-      </repositories>
-      <id>artifactory</id>
-    </profile>
-  </profiles>
-  <activeProfiles>
-    <activeProfile>artifactory</activeProfile>
-  </activeProfiles>
-</settings>
-