diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4428b6ca..a44c033c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - [Ruby] Minimum ruby version is now bumped from 2.3 to 2.6 (With minor refactors to the parser) ([#204](https://github.com/cucumber/tag-expressions/pull/204))
 - [Ruby] Speed up Parser#parse by removing redundant `nil` safety check
 
+### Changed
+- [Python] PEP 639 licence metadata specification ([#211](https://github.com/cucumber/tag-expressions/pull/211))
+
 ## [6.2.0] - 2025-05-25
 ### Added
 - [PHP] Add new implementation ([#194](https://github.com/cucumber/tag-expressions/pull/194))
diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index 4564ad31..4452daba 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # PYTHON3: requires = ["setuptools>=64", "setuptools_scm>=8", "wheel"]
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools_scm", "wheel"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=77.0.0", "setuptools_scm", "wheel"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ description = "Provides a tag-expression parser and evaluation logic for cucumbe
 version = "6.2.0"
 # PREPARED: dynamic = ["version"]
 keywords= ["BDD", "testing", "cucumber", "tag-expressions", "behave"]
-license = {text = "MIT"}
+license = "MIT"
+license-files = [
+     "LICENSE"
+]
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=2.7"
 classifiers = [
@@ -47,7 +50,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
     "Topic :: Software Development :: Testing",
     "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
-    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "enum34; python_version < '3.4'"