diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c639d1ecced9531e0b31be65c920506cc5983ec9..4768de2625fd2da3b824a66208ab9c401ce2c750 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'
 authors = [