diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 1e7c8f55..9d69a172 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ on:
       - published
 
 jobs:
-  build_wheels:
-    name: build wheel
+  build_packages:
+    name: build wheel & source distribtions
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
@@ -26,34 +26,19 @@ jobs:
         with:
           path: ${{ env.pythonLocation }}
           key: build-${{ runner.os }}-${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('pyproject.toml', 'setup.*') }}
-      - name: build wheel
-        run: pip wheel . -w dist --no-deps
-      - name: save wheel
+      - name: install build package
+        run: pip install build
+      - name: build package
+        run: python -m build
+      - name: save builds
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
           name: build
-          path: ./dist/*.whl
-  build_sdist:
-    name: package source
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: install Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-      - name: install dependencies
-        run: pip install dunamai
-      - name: package source
-        run: python setup.py sdist
-      - name: save source package
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
-        with:
-          name: build
-          path: ./dist/*.tar.gz
+          path: ./dist
   upload_pypi:
     if: github.event_name == 'release'
     name: publish to PyPI
-    needs: [ build_wheels, build_sdist ]
+    needs: [ build_packages ]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: retrieve wheel(s) and source
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5708141c..1ee467cd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2", "wheel", "numpy"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=7", "wheel", "numpy"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ maintainers = [
     {name = "Soroosh Mani", email = "soroosh.mani@noaa.gov"}
 ]
 description = "Package to generate computational unstructured meshes from planetary modeling."
-license = {file = "CC0"}
+license = {file = "LICENSE"}
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = '>=3.7, <3.10'
 dependencies = [