diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 35ec4e6..97f4bb1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 name = "wham"
 version = "0.9.0"
 authors = ["D. Bauer <bauer@bio.tu-darmstadt.de>"]
+description = "An implementation of the weighted histogram analysis method"
+license = "GPL-3.0"
+repository = "https://github.com/danijoo/WHAM"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = {version="2.32.0", features=['yaml']}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5e62edf..4b7a0f5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ TODO
 
 License 
 ---
-WHAM is licensed under the GPLv3 license. Please read the LICENSE file in this
+WHAM is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. Please read the LICENSE file in this
 repository for more information.
 
 Parts of this work, especially some perfomance optimizations and the I/O format, are inspired by the