diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index cfe5301e..cc012de4 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ unknown-git = "warn"
 github = ["*"]
 
 [licenses]
-# `unlicensed` was removed in cargo-deny (EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny#611): a
-# crate whose license cannot be determined now fails against `allow` below,
-# which is what this key asked for anyway.
-allow =["MIT", "Apache-2.0", "BSD-2-Clause", "BSD-3-Clause", "ISC", "Unicode-3.0"]
+# `unlicensed` was removed in cargo-deny (EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny#611), which
+# made `deny` the new default for a crate whose license cannot be determined.
+# Dropping the key changes nothing about the outcome.
+allow = ["MIT", "Apache-2.0", "BSD-2-Clause", "BSD-3-Clause", "ISC", "Unicode-3.0"]
 confidence-threshold = 0.8