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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 index 7d8e26ad8..9ce493604 100644 --- a/kivy/__init__.py +++ b/kivy/__init__.py @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Kivy framework 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 index 2a10eacaa..530c35d0c 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ setup( author='Kivy Crew', author_email='kivy-dev@googlegroups.com', url='http://kivy.org/', - license='LGPL', + license='MIT', description=( 'A software library for rapid development of ' 'hardware-accelerated multitouch applications.'), @@ -522,8 +522,7 @@ setup( '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',