diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f88c1c3..0cf83eb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -34,10 +35,9 @@
     </licenses>
 
     <scm>
-        <connection>scm:git:ssh://github.com/rometools/rome.git</connection>
+        <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/rometools/rome.git</connection>
         <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/rometools/rome.git</developerConnection>
         <url>https://github.com/rometools/rome</url>
-        <tag>HEAD</tag>
     </scm>
 
     <developers>