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xdrop / fuzzywuzzy

Java fuzzy string matching implementation of the well known Python's fuzzywuzzy algorithm. Fuzzy search for Java
GNU General Public License v2.0
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GPL - v2 or v3? #78

Closed ajorg-aws closed 4 years ago

ajorg-aws commented 4 years ago

Hello,

In #35 you've noted that "this is a rewrite of https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy, which forces this to be licensed under the same license (GPL) as the original library."

The Python package is licensed under GPL-2.0 without clarification if it's GPL-2.0-or-later or GPL-2.0-only, and some implication in the commit message and the timing of when the Python project was relicensed from MIT to GPL-2.0 that it was probably meant to be GPL-2.0-only.

This port has a GPL-3.0 license file.

Was it your intention to license this project under GPL-2.0 to match the license of the original project? If so, would you have any objection to taking the GPL-2.0 license text instead of GPL-3.0?

Thanks!

burdoto commented 4 years ago

The license must match the project it comes from - so it should be v2.

xdrop commented 4 years ago

The license must match the project it comes from - so it should be v2.

Not necessarily.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

That being said, I have no objection in switching to GPL version 2. I'll update this soon.

xdrop commented 4 years ago

Done

ajorg-aws commented 4 years ago

Thank you!

ajorg-aws commented 4 years ago

Hello. A colleague noticed that there's still a header.txt that references GPLv3. Can that be removed, or replaced with GPLv2 header text to make licensing more clear?

xdrop commented 4 years ago

Hello. A colleague noticed that there's still a header.txt that references GPLv3. Can that be removed, or replaced with GPLv2 header text to make licensing more clear?

I've updated it.

ajorg-aws commented 4 years ago

Thanks!