-- Remove license field that is incompatible with setuptools 63.1.0
-- The LICENSE_FILE is already set in the Makefile
--
-- Lower setuptools requirement to match FreeBSD port version

--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-09-08 00:03:10 UTC
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ description = "Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking"
 name = "sentence-transformers"
 version = "6.0.1"
 description = "Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking"
-license = "Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
     { name = "Nils Reimers", email = "info@nils-reimers.de" },
@@ -100,7 +99,7 @@ docs = [
 ]
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=77.0.3"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=63.1.0"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]