Change license from LGPL 3 to MIT

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diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Kivy Team and other contributors
+
+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/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ natural user interfaces.
 Licenses
 --------
 
-- Kivy is licensed under the terms of the LGPL 3, check the COPYING file.
+- Kivy is licensed under the terms of the MIT, check the LICENSE file.
 - The provided fonts DroidSans.ttf and DroidSansMono.ttf are licensed under
   the terms of the Apache 2.0 License. The license can be found at
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

diff --git a/doc/sources/index.rst b/doc/sources/index.rst
@@ -30,22 +30,23 @@ different modules, classes, functions and variables available in Kivy.
 License
 -------
 
-Kivy is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL Version 3.
-You should have received a copy of the LGPL alongside your Kivy
-distribution. See the file COPYING in the Kivy root folder.
-An online version of the license can be found at
-http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt.
+Kivy 1.7.2 and 1.8 are now under MIT License. Previous version are still under
+LGPL 3 license.
+
+Kivy is released under the terms of the MIT License.  You should have received
+a copy of the MIT alongside your Kivy distribution. See the file LICENSE in the
+Kivy root folder.  An online version of the license can be found at:
+
+    https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/master/LICENSE
 
 In a nutshell, the license allows you to use Kivy in your own projects
 regardless of whether they are open source, closed source, commercial or free.
-The one thing the license does enforce is that if you make changes to the
-Kivy sourcecode **itself**, you have to share those changes with us.
-For a more thorough legal explanation of the terms and conditions, please
-refer to the documents listed above.
+Even if the license doesn't require it, we would really appreciate when you
+make changes to the Kivy sourcecode **itself**, share those changes with us!
 
 For a list of authors, please see the file AUTHORS that accompanies the
-Kivy source code distribution (next to COPYING).
+Kivy source code distribution (next to LICENSE).
 
 
-Kivy -- Copyright 2011-2013, The Kivy Authors. All rights reserved.
+Kivy -- Copyright 2010-2013, The Kivy Authors. All rights reserved.
 
diff --git a/kivy/__init__.py b/kivy/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Kivy is an open source library for developing multi-touch applications. It is
 completely cross-platform (Linux/OSX/Win) and released under the terms of the
-GNU LGPL.
+MIT License.
 
 It comes with native support for many multi-touch input devices, a growing
 library of multi-touch aware widgets and hardware accelerated OpenGL drawing.

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ def get_extensions_from_sources(sources):
     author='Kivy Crew',
     author_email='[email protected]',
     url='http://kivy.org/',
-    license='LGPL',
+    license='MIT',
     description=(
         'A software library for rapid development of '
         'hardware-accelerated multitouch applications.'),
@@ -522,8 +522,7 @@ def get_extensions_from_sources(sources):
         'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
         'Intended Audience :: Information Technology',
         'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
-        'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser '
-        'General Public License (LGPL)',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
         'Natural Language :: English',
         'Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X',
         'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',