I came across this plugin in the apache felix project.
http://felix.apache.org/site/maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html
It has a few different goals for generating OSGi compatible artifacts from maven projects.
I created this maven issue related to version parsing.
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3526
I believe this would allow maven to correctly parse our versions for use in ranges. I'm waiting for some more feedback from the maven dev list and if no one has serious problems with it, I'll make the change.