diff --git a/.github/workflows/acceptable-licenses.txt b/.github/workflows/acceptable-licenses.txt
index 1fb00afa..a6c60c20 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/acceptable-licenses.txt
+++ b/.github/workflows/acceptable-licenses.txt
@@ -39,11 +39,10 @@
 <name>The Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
 <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
 <name>The BSD License</name>
-<name>The GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2, With Classpath Exception</name>
 <name>The GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1</name>
 <name>The MIT License (MIT)</name>
 <name>The MIT License</name>
 <name>Unicode/ICU License</name>
 <name>Universal Permissive License, Version 1.0</name>
 <name>W3C license</name>
-<name>jQuery license</name>
+<name>jQuery license</name>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/license-check.yml b/.github/workflows/license-check.yml
index bc3e7a1e..d97405c1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/license-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/license-check.yml
@@ -40,12 +40,10 @@ jobs:
       run: mvn org.codehaus.mojo:license-maven-plugin:2.0.0:download-licenses
     - name: Validate XML report
       run: |
-        ALLOW_LICENSES=`cat .github/workflows/acceptable-licenses.txt`
-        find . -name licenses.xml | awk '{print "cat " $1}' | sh | xq "//dependency[licenses/license/name!=${{ env.ALLOW_LICENSES }}] | sort | uniq > target/complete-licenses.txt
-        comm -23 target/complete-licenses.txt .github/workflows/acceptable-licenses.txt > target/license-report.txt
-        LINES_FOUND=`cat target/license-report.txt | wc -l`
-        echo "License issues found ..."
-        if [ $LINES_FOUND -gt 1 ]; then cat target/license-report.txt ; exit -1; fi
+        ALLOW_LICENSES=`cat .github/workflows/acceptable-licenses.txt | sed "s/<name>/license/license/name!='/" | sed "s/</name>/' | tr -s '\n' '!' | sed 's/\!/ or /g' `
+		find . -name licenses.xml -exec  xq "//dependency[count(licenses/license[${ALLOW_LICENSES}])=0]" {} \; > target/license-issues.xml       
+        LINES_FOUND=`cat target/license-issues.xml | wc -l`
+        if [ $LINES_FOUND -gt 3 ]; then cat target/license-report.txt ; exit -1; fi
       working-directory: maven
     - name: Upload license reports
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3