diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1bb05c11c5..3c3efab625 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ keywords = [
   'portable',
   'hpc'
 ]
-license = {file = 'LICENSE'}
+license = {file = 'LICENSE.txt'}
 name = 'gt4py'
 readme = 'README.md'
 requires-python = '>=3.8'