diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index b5ed5d713e..6dd0f61baf 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 name = "deltalake"
 description = "Native Delta Lake Python binding based on delta-rs with Pandas integration"
 readme = "README.md"
-license = "MIT"
+license = "Apache-2.0"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 keywords = ["deltalake", "delta", "datalake", "pandas", "arrow"]
 classifiers = [