diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 89ec2455031c..752f7613f207 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -426,6 +426,11 @@
           <plugin>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+            <!--
+              maven-source-plugin-3.0.0 exhibits the zipping behavior on ubuntu that was seen in
+              maven-jar-plugin with version < 2.5 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MJAR-188).
+              Until that is fixed we should stick to 2.4.
+            -->
             <version>2.4</version>
             <executions>
               <execution>