diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index b82506d..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-include LICENSE.txt
-recursive-include e3fp/test/data *
-recursive-include e3fp *cfg
-recursive-include e3fp/fingerprint/metrics *
-recursive-exclude * __pycache__
-recursive-exclude * *.py[co] 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e534749..8709b99 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ readme = "README.rst"
 authors = [
     {name = "Seth Axen", email = "seth.axen@gmail.com"},
 ]
-license = {text = "LGPLv3"}
+license = {file = "LICENSE.txt"}
 keywords = ["e3fp", "3d", "molecule", "fingerprint", "conformer"]
 classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python",