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Is there any LGPL or commercial-friendly licensed implementation of Jaro-Winkler distance in .NET?

dr. evil
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The SimMetrics library appears to support Jaro-Winkler, and there's a .NET version available for download.

Unfortunately it's licensed under the GPL, but maybe the authors would be amenable to giving/selling you a commercial license.

(NB: I haven't used this library myself, and know absolutely nothing about it.)

LukeH
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  • Yeah, actually I've just tried it. Quite nice although GPL seems to be the problem. I might get in touch with the developers (.NET + Java dewvelopers :) it's a port) but I think I'll end up writing it by myself. – dr. evil Oct 02 '09 at 16:34
  • GPL is okay as a side-by-side with proprietary programs, meaning don't link against the library, but `popen` a GPLed executable and pass data back and forth that way. Your program can still retain its proprietary license that way. May or may not be suitable for your application. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem – Mark Rushakoff Oct 02 '09 at 16:45
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I wrote a public domain version in F#. You can access it here: http://fssnip.net/2M

Rick Minerich
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