diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 8ea8556..8273f64 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@ ossrhPassword=
 
 # See https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/11308 regarding the following property
 systemProp.org.gradle.internal.publish.checksums.insecure=true
+
+# We are using the Kotlin Gradle plugin so that we can write our build script in
+# Kotlin, but we do *not* want it to add kotlin-stdlib as a dependency in our pom.
+kotlin.stdlib.default.dependency=false