diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index c4d51b10bd336..465fa1e9f00cf 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         jackson_module_scala                        : "com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-scala_2.11:$jackson_version",
         jaxb_api                                    : "javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:$jaxb_api_version",
         joda_time                                   : "joda-time:joda-time:2.10.3",
+        jsr305                                      : "com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.2",
         junit                                       : "junit:junit:4.13-beta-3",
         kafka                                       : "org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.11:$kafka_version",
         kafka_clients                               : "org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:$kafka_version",
@@ -738,6 +739,10 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         // spotbugs-annotations artifact is licensed under LGPL and cannot be included in the
         // Apache Beam distribution, but may be relied on during build.
         // See: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#prohibited
+        // Special case for jsr305 (a transitive dependency of spotbugs-annotations):
+        // sdks/java/core's FieldValueTypeInformation needs javax.annotations.Nullable at runtime.
+        // Therefore, the java core module declares jsr305 dependency (BSD license) as "compile".
+        // https://github.com/findbugsproject/findbugs/blob/master/findbugs/licenses/LICENSE-jsr305.txt
         "com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-annotations:3.1.12",
         "net.jcip:jcip-annotations:1.0",
       ]
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/build.gradle b/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
index a7ed6c2e87dbe..f8741b4ebe995 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ dependencies {
   compile library.java.protobuf_java
   compile library.java.commons_compress
   compile library.java.commons_lang3
+  compile library.java.jsr305
   shadow library.java.jackson_core
   shadow library.java.jackson_annotations
   shadow library.java.jackson_databind