wxPython Licence vs GPL

[Mike Meyer]

"Paul Boddie" <paul at boddie.org.uk> writes:
> Ed Jensen wrote:
> [On proprietary ports of Python...]
>> Show me the harm done.
> We'll have to wait and see what happens. There's a risk that versions
> of Python with different semantics or characteristics to the original
> could cause the development of parallel communities, instead of
> everyone working on/with the same project.

How are the proprietary forks any worse/more dangerous than the
open implementations of Python when it comes to such things? In other
words, what does the GPL do that prevents this forking?

     <mike
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