diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e67f9be..52b4e89 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ authors = [
   { name="Erica Busch", email="ericalindseybusch@gmail.com" },
 ]
 description = "Temporal PHATE (TPHATE) is a python package for learning robust manifold representations of timeseries data with high temporal autocorrelation."
+license-files = ["LICENSE.md"]
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 classifiers = [
@@ -47,4 +48,4 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.urls]
 "Homepage" = "https://github.com/KrishnaswamyLab/TPHATE/"
-"Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/KrishnaswamyLab/TPHATE/issues"
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+"Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/KrishnaswamyLab/TPHATE/issues"