License?

[solonovamax]

Where does this project stand in terms of licensing?

As per xdrop/fuzzywuzzy#35, xdrop/fuzzywuzzy#84, and xdrop/fuzzywuzzy#78, the parent project is currently licensed under GPLv2.0.

Because of this, this repo should be under GPL as well, no?

Whereas, this repo is under the Apache-2.0 license.

I'd love to use this in my project (solo-studios/PolyBot), but it is (currently) under MIT and I don't wish to step on any licenses' toes. Especially the GPL, since it's very invasive.

[o-nix]

Yeah? Is it really a fork or a complete rewrite?

[maxbachmann]

The project uses a complete copy of GPL licensed code from fuzzywuzzy and python-Levenshtein. See e.g.

fuzzywuzzy-kotlin/app/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/willowtreeapps/fuzzywuzzy/diffutils/DiffUtils.kt

Lines 21 to 108 in 64f9d3c

	private fun getEditOps(len1: Int, s1: String, len2: Int, s2: String): Array<EditOp> {
	var len1Copy = len1
	var len2Copy = len2
	var len1o = 0
	val len2o: Int
	var i = 0
	val matrix: IntArray
	val c1 = s1
	val c2 = s2
	var p1 = 0
	var p2 = 0
	while (len1Copy > 0 && len2Copy > 0 && c1[p1] == c2[p2]) {
	len1Copy--
	len2Copy--
	p1++
	p2++
	len1o++
	}
	len2o = len1o
	/* strip common suffix */
	while (len1Copy > 0 && len2Copy > 0 && c1[p1 + len1Copy - 1] == c2[p2 + len2Copy - 1]) {
	len1Copy--
	len2Copy--
	}
	len1Copy++
	len2Copy++
	matrix = IntArray(len2Copy * len1Copy)
	while (i < len2Copy) {
	matrix[i] = i
	i++
	}
	i = 1
	while (i < len1Copy) {
	matrix[len2Copy * i] = i
	i++
	}
	i = 1
	while (i < len1Copy) {
	var ptrPrev = (i - 1) * len2Copy
	var ptrC = i * len2Copy
	val ptrEnd = ptrC + len2Copy - 1
	val char1 = c1[p1 + i - 1]
	var ptrChar2 = p2
	var x = i
	ptrC++
	while (ptrC <= ptrEnd) {
	var c3 = matrix[ptrPrev++] + if (char1 != c2[ptrChar2++]) 1 else 0
	x++
	if (x > c3) {
	x = c3
	}
	c3 = matrix[ptrPrev] + 1
	if (x > c3) {
	x = c3
	}
	matrix[ptrC++] = x
	}
	i++
	}
	return editOpsFromCostMatrix(len1Copy, c1, p1, len1o, len2Copy, c2, p2, len2o, matrix)
	}

https://github.com/ztane/python-Levenshtein/blob/07785f1516ea099ded127bceea71b5fa41147306/Levenshtein/_levenshtein.c#L5775-L5838

so publishing + using this project under the Apache license is a license violation.