diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2dd0e348..c8b6b0f8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ homepage = "https://github.com/certbot/josepy"
 authors = ["Certbot Project <certbot-dev@eff.org>"]
 readme = "README.rst"
 include = [
-    "CHANGELOG.rst",
-    "CONTRIBUTING.md",
     "docs", "tests",
 ]