diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dbf5d1e..1ef7b66 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ authors = [{name = "Markus Klein"}]
 description="Read the data of an ODBC data source as sequence of Apache Arrow record batches."
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "MIT"
-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 version = "8.0.9"
 # cffi: for communicating with Rust
 # pyarrow: to create pyarrow arrays out of the c representation