use rapidfuzz instead of fuzzywuzzy

wikimedia / WikiContrib

A tool for Wikimedia community members to visualize their technical contributions

https://wikicontrib.toolforge.org

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use rapidfuzz instead of fuzzywuzzy #194

Closed maxbachmann closed 4 years ago

maxbachmann commented 4 years ago

FuzzyWuzzy is GPLv2 licensed which would force you to licence the whole project under GPLv2. For this reason this Pullrequest replaces FuzzyWuzzy with rapidfuzz which is implementing the same algorithm but is based on a version of fuzzywuzzy that was MIT Licensed. Rapidfuzz is:

Mit licensed so it can be used with the license used by this project
Is faster than FuzzyWuzzy

srish commented 4 years ago

@maxbachmann Thank you for reaching out to us! I wasn't myself aware that there can be concerns with using a GPL library with MIT licensed code. Would love to support Rapidfuzz