diff --git a/repository/plugin.jelly b/repository/plugin.jelly
index 73d2b45c..73489af7 100644
--- a/repository/plugin.jelly
+++ b/repository/plugin.jelly
@@ -260,6 +260,23 @@
      </x:forEach>
   </goal>
 
+  <goal name="repository:audit-generate-poms"
+    description="generate a pom for all the groupId's in the audit file">
+
+    <repository:parseAudit var="audit"/>
+     <x:forEach var="project" select="$audit/licenses/project">
+       <j:set var="group"><x:expr select="$project/groupId"/></j:set>
+       <ant:echo>Creating pom for ${group}</ant:echo>
+       <x:set var="url" select="string($project/url)"/>
+       <x:set var="comments" select="string($project/comments)"/>
+         <!-- get file and don't let the &amp; get reescaped -->
+       <x:set var="xfile" select="string($project/file)" />
+       <j:file name="${maven.build.dir}/${group}.pom" prettyPrint="yes">
+         <j:import file="${plugin.resources}/pom-template.jelly" inherit="true"/>
+       </j:file>
+     </x:forEach>
+  </goal>
+
   <!-- expects groupId to be set -->
   <goal name="repository:create-project"
     description="create a project, specified by groupId, in the repository">