GUIs - A Modest Proposal

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I don't know whether this thread is going backwards, forwards or
sideways. But a lot of useful information is creeping out of the
woodwork.

I like the points about backwards compatibility. Presumably that
reason alone is enough to keep Tkinter in the standard library for a
long while.
But the point has also been made that there are several things there
that are - if not duplicates - at least alternatives.

So would it be so awful to have Tkinter and GUI2 (whatever it is) in
the stdlib, assuming that both had equivalent functionality? That
would be the way to give people the choice.
But it does imply that GUI2 is not too huge, to prevent excessive
bloat (is that a tautology?).
Other interesting comments: licencing. Can anyone give a concise
summary of whether the 'major' GUIs have any insuperable licencing
problems that would rule them out anyway? Programming is hard enough
without lawyers.