diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index ca45008..8fad642 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+1.9.dev
+-------------------------
+
+- changed LICENSE to MIT
+
+- fix duplicate reported test ids with --looponfailing
+  (thanks Jeremy Thurgood)
+
 1.8
 -------------------------
 
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index bbbf1b2..31ecdfb 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
-The execnet package is released under the provisions of the Gnu Public
-License (GPL), version 2 or later.  
 
-See http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ for more information.
+  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.
 
-This package also contains some minor parts which 
-which are useable under the MIT license. 
-
-If you have questions and/or want to use parts of 
-the code under a different license than the GPL 
-please contact me. 
-
-holger krekel, January 2010, holger at merlinux eu 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 50c3384..7c7e563 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ setup(
     version='1.9dev1',
     description='py.test xdist plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-failing modes',
     long_description=open('README.txt').read(),
-    license='GPLv2 or later',
+    license='MIT',
     author='holger krekel and contributors',
-    author_email='py-dev@codespeak.net,holger@merlinux.eu',
+    author_email='pytest-dev@python.org,holger@merlinux.eu',
     url='http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest-xdist',
     platforms=['linux', 'osx', 'win32'],
     packages = ['xdist'],
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ setup(
     classifiers=[
     'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
     'Intended Audience :: Developers',
-    'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)',
+    'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
     'Operating System :: POSIX',
     'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',
     'Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X',