diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4d92051b..2eaf9936 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "tiktoken"
 version = "0.4.0"
 description = "tiktoken is a fast BPE tokeniser for use with OpenAI's models"
 readme = "README.md"
-license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+license = "MIT"
 authors = [{name = "Shantanu Jain"}, {email = "shantanu@openai.com"}]
 dependencies = ["regex>=2022.1.18", "requests>=2.26.0"]
 optional-dependencies = {blobfile = ["blobfile>=2"]}