diff --git a/oss-licenses-plugin/README.md b/oss-licenses-plugin/README.md
index d96ea5b3..fbb42cf6 100755
--- a/oss-licenses-plugin/README.md
+++ b/oss-licenses-plugin/README.md
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ third_party_licenses.json and third_party_licenses.txt files in the distributed
 
 The plugin will generate two text files based on the gathered licenses info:
 
-  * third_party_licenses
-  * third_party_licenses_metadata
+- third_party_licenses
+- third_party_licenses_metadata
 
 and registers them as raw resources so that it can be consumed by the
 play-services-oss-licenses library.
@@ -73,3 +73,11 @@ display additional license information for that library.
 You can also set the title of the displayed activity:
 
     OssLicensesMenuActivity.setActivityTitle(getString(R.string.custom_license_title));
+
+### Include third party licenses
+
+You may come across the case where libraries don't include the licenses component
+in the POM file, meaning it will be excluded from the list. To solve this you can
+create a `third_party_licenses` directory in the root of your project and include
+any license file as a plain text file, without the file extension. These files will
+be included in the list using the file name as the list item's text.
diff --git a/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTask.groovy b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTask.groovy
index 851846b5..c564b255 100644
--- a/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTask.groovy
+++ b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTask.groovy
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
 import org.gradle.api.DefaultTask
 import org.gradle.api.file.RegularFileProperty
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFile
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputDirectory
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputFile
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction
@@ -60,6 +61,9 @@ abstract class LicensesTask extends DefaultTask {
     @InputFile
     abstract RegularFileProperty getDependenciesJson()
 
+    @InputFiles
+    File[] thirdPartyLicenses
+
     @OutputDirectory
     File rawResourceDir
 
@@ -104,6 +108,8 @@ abstract class LicensesTask extends DefaultTask {
             }
         }
 
+        addThirdPartyLicenses();
+
         writeMetadata()
     }
 
@@ -266,6 +272,11 @@ abstract class LicensesTask extends DefaultTask {
         }
     }
 
+    private void addLicensesFromFile(File filename) {
+        String licenseName = filename.getName()
+        appendDependency(licenseName, filename.getBytes())
+    }
+
     protected void appendDependency(String key, byte[] license) {
         appendDependency(new Dependency(key, key), license)
     }
@@ -293,6 +304,15 @@ abstract class LicensesTask extends DefaultTask {
         start += content.length
     }
 
+    protected void addThirdPartyLicenses() {
+        if (thirdPartyLicenses == null) {
+            return
+        }
+        for (filename in thirdPartyLicenses.sort{it.getName().toLowerCase()}) {
+            addLicensesFromFile(filename)
+        }
+    }
+
     protected void writeMetadata() {
         for (entry in licensesMap) {
             licensesMetadata.append(entry.value, UTF_8)
diff --git a/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/OssLicensesPlugin.groovy b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/OssLicensesPlugin.groovy
index 0c377b15..dad159e3 100644
--- a/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/OssLicensesPlugin.groovy
+++ b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/OssLicensesPlugin.groovy
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ class OssLicensesPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
                 def licensesFile = new File(rawResourceDir, "third_party_licenses")
                 def licensesMetadataFile = new File(rawResourceDir,
                         "third_party_license_metadata")
+                def thirdPartyLicensesDir = new File(project.rootProject.projectDir, "third_party_licenses")
+                def thirdPartyLicenses = thirdPartyLicensesDir.exists() ? thirdPartyLicensesDir.listFiles() : []
 
                 def licenseTask = project.tasks.register(
                         "${variant.name}OssLicensesTask",
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ class OssLicensesPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
                     it.rawResourceDir = rawResourceDir
                     it.licenses = licensesFile
                     it.licensesMetadata = licensesMetadataFile
+                    it.thirdPartyLicenses = thirdPartyLicenses
                 }.get()
                 logger.debug("Created task ${licenseTask.name}")
 
diff --git a/oss-licenses-plugin/src/test/java/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTaskTest.java b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/test/java/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTaskTest.java
index 2c8f80e2..497cc8b2 100644
--- a/oss-licenses-plugin/src/test/java/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTaskTest.java
+++ b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/test/java/com/google/android/gms/oss/licenses/plugin/LicensesTaskTest.java
@@ -348,4 +348,19 @@ public void action_absentDependencies_rendersAbsentData() throws Exception {
     assertEquals(line, LicensesTask.ABSENT_DEPENDENCY_TEXT);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testThirdPartyLicenses() throws IOException {
+    File thirdPartyLicensesDir = new File(BASE_DIR + "/thirdPartyLicenses");
+    File[] thirdPartyLicenses = thirdPartyLicensesDir.listFiles();
+    assert thirdPartyLicenses != null;
+    licensesTask.setThirdPartyLicenses(thirdPartyLicenses);
+    licensesTask.addThirdPartyLicenses();
+
+    String expected = "test" + LINE_BREAK;
+    String content = new String(Files.readAllBytes(thirdPartyLicenses[0].toPath()), UTF_8);
+
+    assertThat(licensesTask.licensesMap.size(), is(1));
+    assertTrue(licensesTask.licensesMap.containsKey("license1"));
+    assertEquals(expected, content);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/oss-licenses-plugin/src/test/resources/thirdPartyLicenses/license1 b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/test/resources/thirdPartyLicenses/license1
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9daeafb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/oss-licenses-plugin/src/test/resources/thirdPartyLicenses/license1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+test