diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2f2be86f..9f529c06 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ setup(
     url='https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF',
     author='James R. Barlow',
     author_email='jim@purplerock.ca',
-    license='Public Domain',
+    license='MIT',
     packages=['ocrmypdf'],
     keywords=['PDF', 'OCR', 'optical character recognition', 'PDF/A', 'scanning'],
     classifiers=[