diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 1b28a095..b3e2c1ed 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
-CLI11 is an open-source project: Permission to use and redistribute 
-is granted under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, 
-version 3.0, provided that this notice is included. 
+MIT License
 
-Contributors are requested to please put a comment in their header files
-explicitly granting permission to redistribute under the LGPL version 3.0. 
+Copyright (c) 2017 Henry Schreiner
+
+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/include/CLI/App.hpp b/include/CLI/App.hpp
index 2cfb4b86..6678eaa0 100644
--- a/include/CLI/App.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/App.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <string>
diff --git a/include/CLI/CLI.hpp b/include/CLI/CLI.hpp
index 4a814f9d..9611f127 100644
--- a/include/CLI/CLI.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/CLI.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 // CLI Library includes
diff --git a/include/CLI/Error.hpp b/include/CLI/Error.hpp
index 27702575..eedee7d0 100644
--- a/include/CLI/Error.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/Error.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <string>
diff --git a/include/CLI/Ini.hpp b/include/CLI/Ini.hpp
index baeae521..7d2c4f0f 100644
--- a/include/CLI/Ini.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/Ini.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <fstream>
diff --git a/include/CLI/Option.hpp b/include/CLI/Option.hpp
index a47540e3..b5c94b98 100644
--- a/include/CLI/Option.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/Option.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <string>
diff --git a/include/CLI/Split.hpp b/include/CLI/Split.hpp
index b390eb9e..dfa0154b 100644
--- a/include/CLI/Split.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/Split.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <string>
diff --git a/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp b/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp
index fff1f03e..b49f4830 100644
--- a/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/StringTools.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <string>
diff --git a/include/CLI/TypeTools.hpp b/include/CLI/TypeTools.hpp
index 55707e9d..c238568e 100644
--- a/include/CLI/TypeTools.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/TypeTools.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <vector>
diff --git a/include/CLI/Validators.hpp b/include/CLI/Validators.hpp
index 6758f20a..1067f409 100644
--- a/include/CLI/Validators.hpp
+++ b/include/CLI/Validators.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 #include <string>
diff --git a/scripts/MakeSingleHeader.py b/scripts/MakeSingleHeader.py
index bd0dc797..86654798 100755
--- a/scripts/MakeSingleHeader.py
+++ b/scripts/MakeSingleHeader.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def MakeHeader(out):
     output = '''\
 #pragma once
 
-// Distributed under the LGPL version 3.0 license.  See accompanying
+// Distributed under the MIT license.  See accompanying
 // file LICENSE or https://github.com/henryiii/CLI11 for details.
 
 // This file was generated using MakeSingleHeader.py in CLI11/scripts