diff --git a/api_client/Cargo.toml b/api_client/Cargo.toml
index b8791dfc3..93a7836fc 100644
--- a/api_client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/api_client/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["The Cloud Hypervisor Authors"]
 edition.workspace = true
+license = "Apache-2.0"
 name = "api_client"
 version = "0.1.0"