diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e897ae2..c398756 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ name = "flynt"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "CLI tool to convert a python project's %-formatted strings to f-strings."
 readme = "README.md"
-license = "MIT"
+license = { text = "MIT" }
 requires-python = ">=3.7"
 authors = [
     { name = "Ilya Kamenshchikov" },