This commit updates the MavenPublishingConventions to use HTTPS to
link to the Apache license. The configuration of NoHTTP has also
been reworked so that it will correctly find usch uses of http://
URLs.
Closes gh-21459
Replace Gradle single quote strings with the double quote form
whenever possible. The change helps to being consistency to the
dependencies section where mostly single quotes were used, but
occasionally double quotes were required due to `${}` references.