Migration maven->gradle, type tld replacement

I tried to migrate some projects from maven to gradle with great performance improvements. But i still have some issues, the main blocker is, that i cannot find a replacement for maven type tld. e.g.

<dependency>
    <groupId>taglibs</groupId>
    <artifactId>c</artifactId>
    <type>tld</type>
</dependency>

When i use gradle init on the maven project, it adds:

compile 'taglibs:c:1.1.2' 
compile 'taglibs:fmt:1.1.2'
compile 'taglibs:fn:1.1.1'

But thats not working: WEB-INF/tld is missing.