-- Remove hatch-vcs (VCS-based versioning fails for tarball builds),
-- SPDX license fields unsupported by older hatchling, and switch to
-- static version for FreeBSD ports tarball builds.
--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-10-22 08:34:05 UTC
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # plus `license-files`); older versions reject project.license-files. Pinning a
 # floor matters for --no-build-isolation builds, where the backend comes from
 # the environment rather than being resolved fresh.
-requires = ["hatchling>=1.27", "hatch-vcs>=0.4"]
+requires = ["hatchling"]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ requires-python = ">=3.10"
 description = "A Python interface to archive.org."
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-license = "AGPL-3.0-only"
-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 authors = [{ name = "Jacob M. Johnson", email = "jake@archive.org" }]
 classifiers = [
   "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "tqdm>=4.0.0",
   "urllib3>=1.26.0",
 ]
-dynamic = ["version"]
+version = "5.12.0"
 
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive"
@@ -88,14 +86,9 @@ release = ["twine", "packaging"]
 # release is `git tag vX.Y.Z` and nothing else -- no version-bump PR, and no
 # way for the tag and the packaged version to disagree. Working from a
 # checkout between tags yields the next patch version with a .devN suffix.
-[tool.hatch.version]
-source = "vcs"
-raw-options = { local_scheme = "no-local-version" }
 
 # Written at build time and imported by internetarchive/__version__.py.
 # Not tracked in git -- see .gitignore.
-[tool.hatch.build.hooks.vcs]
-version-file = "internetarchive/_version.py"
 
 # Selecting the `internetarchive` directory takes everything in it, including
 # any untracked-but-not-gitignored subdirectory that happens to be sitting