diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 1b94bfa6f..4957fdc46 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -148,6 +148,36 @@ If you want to build with the regular `mvn` command, you will need https://maven
 
 _Also see link:CONTRIBUTING.adoc[CONTRIBUTING.adoc] if you wish to submit pull requests, and in particular please sign the https://cla.pivotal.io/sign/spring[Contributor’s Agreement] before your first non-trivial change._
 
+=== Running Integration Tests
+
+[source,bash]
+----
+ $ ./mvnw clean install
+----
+
+Runs integration test against a single in memory database.
+
+To run integration tests against all supported databases specify the Maven Profile `all-dbs`.
+
+```
+./mvnw clean install -Pall-dbs
+```
+
+This requires an appropriate `container-license-acceptance.txt` to be on the classpath, signaling that you accept the licence of the databases used.
+
+If you don't want to accept these licences you may add the Maven Profile `ignore-missing-licence`.
+This will ignore the tests that require an explicit license acceptance.
+
+```
+./mvnw clean install -Pall-dbs,ignore-missing-licence
+```
+
+
+If you want to run an integration tests against a different database you can do so by activating an apropriate Spring Profile.
+Available are the following Spring Profiles:
+
+`db2`, `h2`, `hsql` (default), `mariadb`, `mssql`, `mysql`, `oracle`, `postgres`
+
 === Building reference documentation
 
 Building the documentation builds also the project without running tests.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 56cfaabc4..5b0fbcd32 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@
 									<includes>
 										<include>**/*IntegrationTests.java</include>
 									</includes>
-									<excludes>
 										<exclude>**/*HsqlIntegrationTests.java</exclude>
 									</excludes>
 									<systemPropertyVariables>
@@ -231,6 +230,22 @@
 				</plugins>
 			</build>
 		</profile>
+		<profile>
+			<id>ignore-missing-licence</id>
+			<build>
+				<plugins>
+					<plugin>
+						<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+						<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+						<configuration>
+							<systemPropertyVariables>
+								<on-missing-licence>ignore-test</on-missing-licence>
+							</systemPropertyVariables>
+						</configuration>
+					</plugin>
+				</plugins>
+			</build>
+		</profile>
 	</profiles>
 
 	<build>
diff --git a/spring-data-jdbc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/testing/LicenseListener.java b/spring-data-jdbc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/testing/LicenseListener.java
index f60d9c964..f1801e188 100644
--- a/spring-data-jdbc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/testing/LicenseListener.java
+++ b/spring-data-jdbc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/testing/LicenseListener.java
@@ -16,13 +16,11 @@
 package org.springframework.data.jdbc.testing;
 
 import org.junit.AssumptionViolatedException;
-
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
 import org.springframework.core.env.Profiles;
 import org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestContext;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListener;
-
 import org.testcontainers.containers.Db2Container;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.MSSQLServerContainer;
 import org.testcontainers.utility.LicenseAcceptance;
@@ -32,14 +30,17 @@ import org.testcontainers.utility.LicenseAcceptance;
  * accepted.
  * 
  * @author Mark Paluch
+ * @author Jens Schauder
  */
 @Order(Integer.MIN_VALUE)
 public class LicenseListener implements TestExecutionListener {
 
+	private StandardEnvironment environment;
+
 	@Override
 	public void prepareTestInstance(TestContext testContext) {
 
-		StandardEnvironment environment = new StandardEnvironment();
+		environment = new StandardEnvironment();
 
 		if (environment.acceptsProfiles(Profiles.of("db2"))) {
 			assumeLicenseAccepted(Db2Container.DEFAULT_DB2_IMAGE_NAME + ":" + Db2Container.DEFAULT_TAG);
@@ -50,12 +51,20 @@ public class LicenseListener implements TestExecutionListener {
 		}
 	}
 
-	private static void assumeLicenseAccepted(String imageName) {
+	private void assumeLicenseAccepted(String imageName) {
 
 		try {
 			LicenseAcceptance.assertLicenseAccepted(imageName);
 		} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
-			throw new AssumptionViolatedException(e.getMessage());
+
+			if (environment.getProperty("on-missing-licence", "fail").equals("ignore-test")) {
+				throw new AssumptionViolatedException(e.getMessage());
+			} else {
+
+				throw new IllegalStateException(
+						"You need to accept the licence for the database with which you are testing or set \"ignore-missing-licence\" as active profile in order to skip tests for which a licence is missing.",
+						e);
+			}
 		}
 	}