diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 0b5f5af..0e579c9 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "license": "CC-ZERO",
+  "license": "CC0-1.0",
   "title": "Structural Interaction Fingerprints and Machine Learning for predicting and explaining binding of small molecule ligands to RNA: a benchmark dataset",
   "version": "0-1-1",
   "upload_type": "dataset",
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index fee673f..3f2b0e0 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ keywords:
   - python
   - drug design
   - machine learning
-license: CC-ZERO
+license: CC0-1.0