diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# setuptools-scm will automatically include all git-tracked files in a sdist archive
+# exclude ones to match previous behavior
+exclude MANIFEST.in
+exclude tox.ini
+exclude pytest.ini
+exclude .gitignore
+exclude requirements-test.txt
+exclude uv.lock
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+++ b/pyproject.toml
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+[project]
+name = "datauri"
+version = "1.1.0"
+description = "Implementation of the data uri scheme defined in rfc2397"
+readme = "README.rst"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+dependencies = []
+authors = [
+    { name = "EclecticIQ", email = "info@eclecticiq.com" },
+    { name = "wouter bolsterlee", email = "wouter@bolsterl.ee" },
+]
+license = "BSD-3-Clause"
+
+classifiers = [
+        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+        "Programming Language :: Python",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+]
+
+urls.homepage = "https://github.com/eclecticiq/python-data-uri"
+urls.source = "https://github.com/eclecticiq/python-data-uri"
+urls.issues = "https://github.com/eclecticiq/python-data-uri/issues"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=67"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = ["datauri"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-import os
-from setuptools import setup
-
-with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.rst')) as fp:
-    long_description = fp.read()
-
-setup(
-    name='datauri',
-    description="implementation of the data uri scheme defined in rfc2397",
-    long_description=long_description,
-    version='1.1.0',
-    author="EclecticIQ",
-    author_email="info@eclecticiq.com",
-    packages=['datauri'],
-    url='https://github.com/eclecticiq/python-data-uri',
-    license="BSD",
-    classifiers=[
-        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
-        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
-        "Programming Language :: Python",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
-        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
-    ],
-)
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
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+++ b/uv.lock
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+version = 1
+revision = 3
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "datauri"
+source = { editable = "." }