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nol13 / fuzzball.js

Easy to use and powerful fuzzy string matching, port of fuzzywuzzy.
MIT License
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More permissive licences? #58

Closed dimaip closed 8 months ago

dimaip commented 8 months ago

Hi! Is GPL used for this project deliberately?

We were banned from using this lib in our project by our legal team because apparently installing a package is not considered "Separate Works". If you could reconsider a more permissive licence that would actually allow usage in a commercial project, that would be amazing!

nol13 commented 8 months ago

Unfortunately I don't think I can. (though I am certainly not a lawyer) The fuzzywuzzy code this is based on was stuck on GPL because they used some code from python-Levenshtein.

dimaip commented 8 months ago

Oh, I got ya, it's the dependency from the python counterpart... Thanks for explaining! Too bad, was such a nice experience integrating your package, but we'd have to use for alternatives :-(

sotjdisc commented 6 months ago

Hi,

could you perhaps use the alternative library as suggested in this issue?

https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy/issues/333

nol13 commented 2 months ago

Hmm, ya looks like maybe I can. The original has updated it's license too it looks like. Will do a double check to make sure I don't have any other gpl code im using and I'll update the license.

LucasLongarini commented 1 month ago

Hello 👋 , any update on this? We're facing the same issue where we'd love to use this library but cant because of the license

neo-luca commented 1 month ago

Hey @nol13 we are also blocked by the GPL license. Do you have plans on updating the package license?

nol13 commented 1 month ago

Fuzzball is now licensed under MIT.