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FuzzyWuzzy was MIT Licensed in the beginning, but then in 2011 decided to start using python-Levenshtein which is GPLv2 licensed and therefore the whole project got GPLv2 licensed. RapidFuzz is based on this version of FuzzyWuzzy: https://github.com/rhasspy/fuzzywuzzy and implements similar algorithms in C++

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Good answer. Nice to see licensing issues taken seriously.

This was the main reason to write it. I wrote a small script searching github for projects that use FuzzyWuzzy and then sorted them based on their license into three lists a) GPL License b) Incompatible License c) no license. From these three only a) is licensed correctly. From 1k repositories only about 100 used the GPL, 300 an incompatible License and 600 no license at all. So I figured there has to be some interest in having a more open licensed alternative ;)

Fair enough.

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