diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7cd9f02de428858a77131351eec7dec9a94ec68b..52efafb3be13ad040b37ab9a5921253f2bedb3cf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ name = 'scikit-multimodallearn'
 dynamic = ["version", "dependencies", ]
 requires-python = '>=3.6'
 
-license = "BSD-3-Clause"
+license = {'text' = "BSD-3-Clause"}
 
 readme = {file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst"}
 description = 'A scikit-learn compatible package for multimodal Classifiers'