Many maven plug-ins support skipping the plug-in altogether when skip is set to true in the configuration. In a big tree of modules, that can be useful for supporting setting up reasonable defaults, and then opting out in modules where this is not necessary. So, e.g.:

  	<plugin>
  			<groupId>com.diffplug.spotless</groupId>
  			<artifactId>spotless-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  			<configuration>
				<skip>true</skip>
  			</configuration>
  	</plugin>