diff --git a/recipes/cartotools/license.txt b/recipes/cartotools/license.txt
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-MIT License
-
-Copyright (c) 2017 Xavier Olive
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
-copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/recipes/cartotools/meta.yaml b/recipes/cartotools/meta.yaml
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-{% set version = "1.2.2" %}
-
-package:
-  name: cartotools
-  version: {{ version }}
-
-source:
-  url: https://pypi.io/packages/source/c/cartotools/cartotools-{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: 28d75bdbf29fd6e17e09313396b5b4af8d4d8ba875a974925eea6c44e5ce426f
-
-build:
-  noarch: python
-  number: 0
-  script: "{{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . -vv"
-
-requirements:
-  host:
-    - python >=3.6
-    - pip
-  run:
-    - python >=3.6
-    - numpy >=1.18
-    - pandas
-    - pillow
-    - pyproj >=2.0
-    - Cartopy
-    - Shapely
-    - requests
-    - appdirs
-
-test:
-  imports:
-    - cartotools
-
-about:
-  home: https://github.com/xoolive/cartotools
-  license: MIT
-  license_file: license.txt
-  summary: 'Making cartopy suit my needs'
-
-extra:
-  recipe-maintainers:
-    - xoolive