diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d707d89ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+This project includes source code from other open-source projects to facilitate
+bootstrapping.
+
+The license information for those projects is distributed by setuptools under
+the directories:
+
+    setuptools/_vendor/*.dist-info/
+    setuptools/_vendor/*.dist-info/licenses/
+
+Please refer to the files in these directories for the complete license texts
+and attribution details of the included third-party components.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 797362dea5..bf963cf9a1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ classifiers = [
 	"Topic :: Utilities",
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
-license = "MIT"
+# For license information, please check license files included in the distribution.
 dependencies = [
 ]
 keywords = ["CPAN PyPI distutils eggs package management"]