gui toolkits: the real story? (Tkinter, PyGTK, etc.)

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Tue Oct 2 09:22:13 EDT 2007


bramble wrote:

> 
> Maybe a better question is, how has Tk managed to keep beating up the
> newer, more modern, more featureful, better documented toolkits
> encroaching on his territory? What's Tk's secret weapon?
> 

Wouldn't license compatability be an issue? Tk's license is BSD-style, 
which means it plays nice with both proprietary and open-source software 
(as does Python's license). Aren't PyGtk and wxPython LGPL? And PyQt is 
either GPL or proprietary.

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