Gradle remove version number from the dependency name

I would like to use derbyrun.jar created by the Apache Derby project in my application in order to run a derby database as a Windows or Linux service.

The problem is that derbyrun.jar references in its manifest other derby jars without any version number in their names, like Class-Path: derby.jar derbyclient.jar derbytools.jar derbynet.jar. While my application (with many subprojects) uses "maven/gradle" format derby-10.13.1.1.jar, derbyclient-10.13.1.1.jar, etc..

Is there a simple way in gradle to name those derby jars without a version number, like

compile("org.apache.derby:derby:10.11.1.1") {
  artifact {
    name = 'derby'
  }
}

that should result in just derby.jar.

I do not like an idea of renaming derby-10.13.1.1.jar into derby.jar in a separate task as we reference those artifact names in many places using configurations.runtime, etc. (e.g. when deploying or creating manifest files for our own jars). And this renaming approach seems to complicate the script unnecessary (+ all the future maintenance effort when the derby version will be changed).

Is there a better way to achieve this? Sure, the mentioned above artifact { name = 'derby' } does not remove the version number from the jar's file name.