diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9b0d1121..bcbdcc4f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Contributions are very welcome! Check out the [Contribution](CONTRIBUTING.rst) G
 
 #### License
 
-This code is released under the [GNU Lesser General Public License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html), version 3.0 (LGPL-3.0).  
+This project is licensed under the terms of the [MIT](https://opensource.org/license/mit/) license.
 Please see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with PGSync.  
diff --git a/pgsync/__init__.py b/pgsync/__init__.py
index ae0df755..8a881086 100644
--- a/pgsync/__init__.py
+++ b/pgsync/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 __author__ = "Tolu Aina"
 __email__ = "tolu@pgsync.com"
-__version__ = "2.5.1"
+__version__ = "3.0.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ddd1ab36..46f340c8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ def get_version() -> str:
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
-    "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3)",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
 ]
 SCRIPTS = [
     "bin/pgsync",
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ def get_version() -> str:
 setup(
     name=NAME,
     author=AUTHOR,
-    license="LGPLv3",
+    license="MIT",
     maintainer=MAINTAINER,
     maintainer_email=MAINTAINER_EMAIL,
     author_email=AUTHOR_EMAIL,