diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d808a29..bf46936 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "Idiomatic conversion between URIs and compact URIs (CURIEs)"
 readme = "README.md"
+license = "MIT"
 license-file = "LICENSE"
 keywords = ["semantic-web", "linked-data", "linked-open-data"]
 categories = ["science", "encoding"]
diff --git a/lib/Cargo.toml b/lib/Cargo.toml
index 7dde0a6..ceca971 100644
--- a/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
 description.workspace = true
 readme.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
 license-file.workspace = true
 keywords.workspace = true
 categories.workspace = true