diff --git a/ci/build_wheel.sh b/ci/build_wheel.sh
index 60355e050..a39ebf502 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel.sh
@@ -45,14 +45,6 @@ cd "${package_dir}"
 
 python -m pip wheel . -w dist -vvv --no-deps --disable-pip-version-check
 
-# Because we built the library with the run script and manually copied the shared pybind11
-# library, the subsequent py_project.toml wheel build was as a pure Python package and results in
-# tags that incorrectly indicate it is a universal wheel. To fix this, we need to modify the wheel
-# to have CPython ABI and Python tags matching the version of Python that the Python bindings were
-# built with.
-WHEEL_PYTHON_TAG=cp$(echo ${RAPIDS_PY_VERSION} | sed 's/\.//g')
-python -m wheel tags --remove --python-tag="${WHEEL_PYTHON_TAG}" --abi-tag="${WHEEL_PYTHON_TAG}" dist/*
-
 mkdir -p final_dist
 python -m auditwheel repair -w final_dist dist/*
 
diff --git a/python/cucim/LICENSE b/python/cucim/LICENSE
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..30cff7403
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/cucim/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../LICENSE
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/cucim/LICENSE-3rdparty.md b/python/cucim/LICENSE-3rdparty.md
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..f07a448f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/cucim/LICENSE-3rdparty.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../LICENSE-3rdparty.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/cucim/pyproject.toml b/python/cucim/pyproject.toml
index 1136ee877..ce9dc87e5 100644
--- a/python/cucim/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/cucim/pyproject.toml
@@ -91,7 +91,10 @@ docs = [
 cucim = "cucim.clara.cli:main"
 
 [tool.setuptools]
-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
+license-files = [
+    "LICENSE",
+    "LICENSE-3rdparty.md",
+]
 include-package-data = true
 
 [tool.setuptools.dynamic]
diff --git a/python/cucim/setup.py b/python/cucim/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23534bec7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/cucim/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution as _Distribution
+
+
+# As we vendored a shared object that links to a specific Python version,
+# make sure it is treated as impure so the wheel is named properly.
+class Distribution(_Distribution):
+    def has_ext_modules(self):
+        return True
+
+
+setup(
+    distclass=Distribution,
+)