More permissive licences?

[dimaip]

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]

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]

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]

Hi,

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

seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy#333

[nol13]

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]

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]

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

[nol13]

Fuzzball is now licensed under MIT.