diff --git a/REUSE.toml b/REUSE.toml
index d095b8e8f12743d9d8fb9aba57729bf8d1e0d531..e04188e6e06371883645e1dde2713729d4c194e2 100644
--- a/REUSE.toml
+++ b/REUSE.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 version = 1
 
 [[annotations]]
-path = ["**/README", "AUTHORS.md", "CONTRIBUTING.md", "README.md"]
+path = ["AUTHORS.md", "CONTRIBUTING.md", "README.md"]
 SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "2013-2024 MPI-M, Luis Kornblueh, Rahul Sinha and DWD, Florian Prill. All rights reserved."
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "CC-BY-4.0"
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ path = "m4/kpse_libtool.m4"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "FSFULLR"
 
 [[annotations]]
-path = "contrib/**/README.txt"
+path = ["contrib/**/README", "contrib/**/README.txt"]
 SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "2024 Thomas Jahns <jahns@dkrz.de>"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "CC-BY-4.0"