diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index baddd881..00a88187 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ authors = [{ name = "Andreas Mueller", email = "t3kcit+wordcloud@gmail.com" }]
 description = "A little word cloud generator"
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
-license = { text = "MIT License" }
+license = "MIT"
 dependencies = ["numpy>=1.6.1", "pillow", "matplotlib"]
 dynamic = ["version"]