diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6eda1b5..f9d9524 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-license = { text = "BSD 3-Clause License" }
+license = { file = "LICENSE" }
 keywords = ["bioinformatics", "openvariant", "openvar", "bbglab"]