ExcludeTransitiveDependenciesFilter fails with error: 'developmentOnly' not found.

[amoghsg]

Using Gradle 6.7.1
I was successfully able to execute vanilla version of ./gradlew generateLicenseReport.

But on including

licenseReport {
    filters = [new ExcludeTransitiveDependenciesFilter()]
}

in build.gradle

It fails with the following error:

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.

What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':xyz:generateLicenseReport'.

Configuration with name 'developmentOnly' not found.

==============================================================================

2: Task failed with an exception.

What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':generateLicenseReport'.

Configuration with name 'developmentOnly' not found.

The relevant parts of my build.gradle:

plugins {
    id 'com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report' version '1.17' apply false
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
        }
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com"
        }
        maven {
            url "https://packages.confluent.io/maven"
        }
        mavenCentral()
    }

    if (!project.name.equals("app")) {
        apply plugin: 'kotlin'
    }

    apply plugin: 'com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report'

    compileKotlin {
        kotlinOptions.jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8.toString()
    }

    compileTestKotlin {
        kotlinOptions.jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8.toString()
    }

    licenseReport {
        renderers = [new CsvReportRenderer()]
        filters = [new ExcludeTransitiveDependenciesFilter()]
    }

[plebcity]

@amoghsg Have you managed to find a workaround for this problem?