-- Remove hatch-vcs (VCS-based versioning fails for tarball builds),
-- SPDX license field unsupported by older hatchling, remove dynamic version,
-- hardcode static version, and remove VCS build hooks for FreeBSD ports builds.
--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-10-22 08:39:10 UTC
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ requires = [
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "hatchling",
-    "hatch-vcs",
     "hatch-cython",
     "setuptools",
     # see https://numpy.org/devdocs/dev/depending_on_numpy.html#numpy-2-0-specific-advice
@@ -12,11 +11,10 @@ name = "vispy"
 
 [project]
 name = "vispy"
-dynamic = ["version"]
+version = "0.17.0"
 description = "Interactive visualization in Python"
 readme = { file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst" }
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 authors = [
     { name = "Vispy contributors", email = "vispy@googlegroups.com" },
 ]
@@ -121,14 +119,7 @@ test = [
     "imageio",
 ]
 
-[tool.hatch.version]
-source = "vcs"
 
-[tool.hatch.version.raw-options]
-local_scheme = "dirty-tag"
-
-[tool.hatch.build.hooks.vcs]
-version-file = "vispy/version.py"
 
 # things like "vispy.glsl" = ["*.vert", "*.frag", "*.glsl"] not needed because hatch includes it
 [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]