Do you need to publish the contents of an existing pom.xml file, or can you let sbt generate the pom's contents for you? If the latter, consider using pomExtra
:
pomExtra := (
<url>http://jsuereth.com/scala-arm</url>
<licenses>
<license>
<name>BSD-style</name>
<url>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
</licenses>
<scm>
<url>git@github.com:jsuereth/scala-arm.git</url>
<connection>scm:git:git@github.com:jsuereth/scala-arm.git</connection>
</scm>
<developers>
<developer>
<id>jsuereth</id>
<name>Josh Suereth</name>
<url>http://jsuereth.com</url>
</developer>
</developers>)