Please don't use version ranges in library poms

Every time you do this (example from this project):

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.nimbusds</groupId>
            <artifactId>lang-tag</artifactId>
            <version>[1.4.3,)</version>
        </dependency>

you force every build of every project that depends on your library to download all versions of lang-tag (1.4.3 and later). It sucks really badly.

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