diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 448c3f9..f9462a3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@
             <artifactId>matrix-project</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.atlassian</groupId>
-            <artifactId>ant-filesystem-tasks</artifactId>
-            <version>0.0.5</version>
+            <groupId>com.github.jnr</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jnr-posix</artifactId>
+            <version>3.1.15</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -85,11 +85,6 @@
             <id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
             <url>https://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
         </repository>
-        <repository>
-            <id>atlassian-public</id>
-            <url>https://maven.atlassian.com/repository/public</url>
-
-        </repository>
     </repositories>
     <pluginRepositories>
         <pluginRepository>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/CopyWithPerms.java b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/CopyWithPerms.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1df1baf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/CopyWithPerms.java
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+package org.jenkinsci.plugins.artifactdeployer.service;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Enumeration;
+
+import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Copy;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSet;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSetCollection;
+
+public class CopyWithPerms extends Copy
+{
+
+    static final String LINE_SEPARATOR = System.getProperty("line.separator");
+
+    private boolean preservePermissions = true;
+
+    public boolean isPreservePermissions()
+    {
+        return preservePermissions;
+    }
+
+    public void setPreservePermissions(boolean preservePermissions)
+    {
+        this.preservePermissions = preservePermissions;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Actually does the file (and possibly empty directory) copies.
+     * This is a good method for subclasses to override.
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected void doFileOperations() {
+        if (fileCopyMap.size() > 0) {
+            log("Copying " + fileCopyMap.size()
+                    + " file" + (fileCopyMap.size() == 1 ? "" : "s")
+                    + " to " + destDir.getAbsolutePath());
+
+            Enumeration e = fileCopyMap.keys();
+            while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
+                String fromFile = (String) e.nextElement();
+                String[] toFiles = (String[]) fileCopyMap.get(fromFile);
+
+                for (int i = 0; i < toFiles.length; i++) {
+                    String toFile = toFiles[i];
+
+                    if (fromFile.equals(toFile)) {
+                        log("Skipping self-copy of " + fromFile, verbosity);
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    try {
+                        log("Copying " + fromFile + " to " + toFile, verbosity);
+
+                        FilterSetCollection executionFilters =
+                                new FilterSetCollection();
+                        if (filtering) {
+                            executionFilters
+                                    .addFilterSet(getProject().getGlobalFilterSet());
+                        }
+                        for (Enumeration filterEnum = getFilterSets().elements();
+                             filterEnum.hasMoreElements();) {
+                            executionFilters
+                                    .addFilterSet((FilterSet) filterEnum.nextElement());
+                        }
+                        fileUtils.copyFile(new File(fromFile), new File(toFile),
+                                executionFilters,
+                                getFilterChains(), forceOverwrite,
+                                preserveLastModified,
+                                /* append: */ false, getEncoding(),
+                                getOutputEncoding(), getProject()
+                                /*, getForce()*/); //ant 1.8.2
+
+                        if (preservePermissions) {
+                            int perms = PermissionsUtils.getPermissions(new File(fromFile));
+                            PermissionsUtils.setPermissions(new File(toFile), perms);
+                        }
+
+                    } catch (IOException ioe) {
+                        String msg = "Failed to copy " + fromFile + " to " + toFile
+                                + " due to " + getDueTo(ioe);
+                        File targetFile = new File(toFile);
+                        if (targetFile.exists() && !targetFile.delete()) {
+                            msg += " and I couldn't delete the corrupt " + toFile;
+                        }
+                        if (failonerror) {
+                            throw new BuildException(msg, ioe, getLocation());
+                        }
+                        log(msg, Project.MSG_ERR);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if (includeEmpty) {
+            Enumeration e = dirCopyMap.elements();
+            int createCount = 0;
+            while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
+                String[] dirs = (String[]) e.nextElement();
+                for (int i = 0; i < dirs.length; i++) {
+                    File d = new File(dirs[i]);
+                    if (!d.exists()) {
+                        if (!d.mkdirs()) {
+                            log("Unable to create directory "
+                                    + d.getAbsolutePath(), Project.MSG_ERR);
+                        } else {
+                            createCount++;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            if (createCount > 0) {
+                log("Copied " + dirCopyMap.size()
+                        + " empty director"
+                        + (dirCopyMap.size() == 1 ? "y" : "ies")
+                        + " to " + createCount
+                        + " empty director"
+                        + (createCount == 1 ? "y" : "ies") + " under "
+                        + destDir.getAbsolutePath());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a reason for failure based on
+     * the exception thrown.
+     * If the exception is not IOException output the class name,
+     * output the message
+     * if the exception is MalformedInput add a little note.
+     */
+    private String getDueTo(Exception ex) {
+        boolean baseIOException = ex.getClass() == IOException.class;
+        StringBuffer message = new StringBuffer();
+        if (!baseIOException || ex.getMessage() == null) {
+            message.append(ex.getClass().getName());
+        }
+        if (ex.getMessage() != null) {
+            if (!baseIOException) {
+                message.append(" ");
+            }
+            message.append(ex.getMessage());
+        }
+        if (ex.getClass().getName().indexOf("MalformedInput") != -1) {
+            message.append(LINE_SEPARATOR);
+            message.append(
+                    "This is normally due to the input file containing invalid");
+            message.append(LINE_SEPARATOR);
+            message.append("bytes for the character encoding used : ");
+            message.append(
+                    (getEncoding() == null
+                            ? fileUtils.getDefaultEncoding() : getEncoding()));
+            message.append(LINE_SEPARATOR);
+        }
+        return message.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/LocalCopy.java b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/LocalCopy.java
index dc1c92f..dc13a32 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/LocalCopy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/LocalCopy.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
  */
 package org.jenkinsci.plugins.artifactdeployer.service;
 
-import com.atlassian.ant.tasks.CopyWithPerms;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
 import org.jenkinsci.plugins.artifactdeployer.ArtifactDeployerException;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/PermissionsUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/PermissionsUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..adba91f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/artifactdeployer/service/PermissionsUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package org.jenkinsci.plugins.artifactdeployer.service;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import jnr.posix.POSIX;
+import jnr.posix.POSIXFactory;
+import jnr.posix.util.DefaultPOSIXHandler;
+
+/**
+ * Provides convenience methods for manipulating file permissions, as best as is achievable with the Java 6 API.
+ */
+public class PermissionsUtils
+{
+    private static POSIX posix = POSIXFactory.getPOSIX(new DefaultPOSIXHandler(), true);
+
+    public static int getPermissions(File file)
+    {
+        return posix.stat(file.getAbsolutePath()).mode() & 0777;
+    }
+
+    public static void setPermissions(File file, int perms)
+    {
+        posix.chmod(file.getAbsolutePath(), perms);
+    }
+}