diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cfa1709b1..eb85691dd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=8", "packaging>=24.2"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=8", "packaging==23.2"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dynamic = ["version", "dependencies", "optional-dependencies"]
 description = "LLM Trainer"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-license = "Apache-2.0"
+# license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [project.scripts]
 axolotl = "axolotl.cli.main:main"