diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt b/legal/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from RELEASE_NOTES.txt
rename to legal/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
diff --git a/maven/mvn-deploy.sh b/maven/mvn-deploy.sh
index e6cfbbbe9..26c8998df 100755
--- a/maven/mvn-deploy.sh
+++ b/maven/mvn-deploy.sh
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 # @author Yegor Kozlov
 
 M2_REPOSITORY=scp://people.apache.org/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository
-M2_SCP=people.apache.org:/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository
 
 VERSION=@VERSION@
 DSTAMP=@DSTAMP@
@@ -51,13 +50,10 @@ do
   mvn gpg:sign-and-deploy-file -DrepositoryId=apache-releases -P apache-releases \
     -Durl=$M2_REPOSITORY \
     -Dfile=$artifactId-$VERSION-$DSTAMP.jar -DpomFile=$artifactId-$VERSION.pom
-  #The maven sign-and-deploy-file command does NOT sign POM files, so we have to upload the POM's .asc manually
-  scp $artifactId-$VERSION.pom.asc $M2_SCP/org/apache/poi/$artifactId/$VERSION/
 
   if [ -r $artifactId-$VERSION-sources-$DSTAMP.jar ]; then
     mvn deploy:deploy-file -DrepositoryId=apache-releases -P apache-releases \
       -Durl=$M2_REPOSITORY -DgeneratePom=false -Dpackaging=java-source \
       -Dfile=$artifactId-$VERSION-sources-$DSTAMP.jar -DpomFile=$artifactId-$VERSION.pom
-    scp $artifactId-$VERSION-sources-$DSTAMP.jar.asc $M2_SCP/org/apache/poi/$artifactId/$VERSION/$artifactId-$VERSION-sources.jar.asc
   fi
 done