diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 6b2b05be5..75f0b9f22 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 include README.rst
 include CHANGES.rst
 include setup.cfg
-include LICENSE.rst
 include pyproject.toml
 
 recursive-include specutils *.pyx *.c *.pxd
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 7bd26c92f..a9a124072 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ License
 This project is Copyright (c) Specutils Developers and licensed under
 the terms of the BSD 3-Clause license. This package is based upon
 the `Astropy package template <https://github.com/astropy/package-template>`_
-which is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. See the licenses folder for
+which is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. See the ``licenses`` folder for
 more information.