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diff --git a/LICENSE.mit.md b/LICENSE.mit.md
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+The MIT License
+===============
+
+Copyright (c) 2015 Stefano Zaghi
+
+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/README.md b/README.md
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ A KISS pure Fortran Library to IO data conforming the VTK standard
 
 ## Copyrights
 
-The Lib\_VTK\_IO is an open source project, it is distributed under the [GPL v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html). Anyone is interest to use, to develop or to contribute to Lib\_VTK\_IO is welcome. Take a look at the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for starting to contribute to the project.
-
+The Lib\_VTK\_IO is an open source project, it is distributed under a dual licensing system: the [GPL v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html) and the [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) licenses. Anyone is interest to use, to develop or to contribute to FiNeR is welcome: you are free to select the GPL license for FOSS projects or the MIT one for commercial softwares.
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 ## Documentation

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog-Lib_VTK_IO.md b/doc/ChangeLog-Lib_VTK_IO.md
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+### Version v1.2.1
+Stable release. Fully backward compatible. Licensing changed.
+
++ Switch to dual licensing system: GPLv3 or MIT as user preference;
+
 ### Version v1.2.0
 Stable release. Fully backward compatible. Modern compiler required.
 

diff --git a/doc/README-Lib_VTK_IO.md b/doc/README-Lib_VTK_IO.md
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ A KISS pure Fortran Library to IO data conforming the VTK standard
 
 ## Copyrights
 
-The Lib\_VTK\_IO is an open source project, it is distributed under the [GPL v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html). Anyone is interest to use, to develop or to contribute to Lib\_VTK\_IO is welcome. Take a look at the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for starting to contribute to the project.
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+The Lib\_VTK\_IO is an open source project, it is distributed under a dual licensing system: the [GPL v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html) and the [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) licenses. Anyone is interest to use, to develop or to contribute to FiNeR is welcome: you are free to select the GPL license for FOSS projects or the MIT one for commercial softwares.
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 ## Documentation