diff --git a/license.txt b/license.txt
index c962d5a382f1395bc0754f7f4c27c6eece834d68..e4ece7d678ccdf4b08b76fc349d22aee9abcefa4 100644
--- a/license.txt
+++ b/license.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-New BSD License
+New BSD License   :  BSD-3-Clause
 
 Copyright (c) 2025-15-04, The scikit-multimodallearn developers.
 All rights reserved.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5f097e1d72f3361649ff5cf11af28edebdea8bca..f1aecc57a25fdc843c0bdcbf93b764111f4f6523 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ name = 'scikit-multimodallearn'
 dynamic = ["version", "dependencies"]
 requires-python = '>=3.6'
 
-license-files = [ "license.txt"]
+license = {text = "BSD-3-Clause"}
+license-files = ["license.txt"]
 readme = {file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst"}
 description = 'A scikit-learn compatible package for multimodal Classifiers'
 authors = [