diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 52efafb3be13ad040b37ab9a5921253f2bedb3cf..ba48c3b9a1e9dbaade0603e09135d1e88b5cc55e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ doc = ["sphinx==5.0", "numpydoc", "sphinx_gallery", "matplotlib", "sphinx_rtd_th
 Documentation  = "https://multi-learn.github.io/scikit-multimodallearn/"
 "Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/multi-learn/scikit-multimodallearn/issues"
 
+[tool.setuptools]
+license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 
 
 [tool.setuptools.dynamic]