diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 4140ce27296a77503946bb76ad527b8dda6d6d2f..a13b2b0714e0b3190918c968e4e5b63c9690e7fc 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
 
-Copyright 2019 Felix Schäfer, Dominik Weitz
+Copyright (c) 2019 Felix Schäfer, Dominik Weitz
 
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-You may obtain a copy of the License at
+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:
 
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-limitations under the License.
+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
index 0afaa9498303d16aec0468c8621485455fd99606..1d721f0ed4cf50d5cbb7e8eea5f8d354d2230d97 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ License
 
 Copyright 2019 Felix Schäfer, Dominik Weitz
 
-Released under the terms of the Apache License 2.0
+Released under the terms of the MIT License
 
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 292df3967fd22a6790ad7eba3fbe7a76a6e66cc2..28c652a0c2c9d446825b216f9775b593de42e2e7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ setup(
     url='git@gitlab.fachschaften.org:kifev/pretix-public-registrations.git',
     author='Felix Schäfer, Dominik Weitz',
     author_email='admin@kif.rocks',
-    license='Apache Software License',
+    license='MIT License',
 
     install_requires=['django-gravatar2'],
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests', 'tests.*']),