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Xara Xtreme available for Linux

Submitted by Uraeus on Tue, 2006-03-21 04:55. Gnome Art
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Xara has announced the availability of their vector graphics application Xara Xtreme for GNU/Linux. It is ported to Linux using wxWidgets and GTK+ and the source code is available under the GPL. They have screenshots available online and they look very nice. Going forward they want to cooperate as much as possible with the Inkscape team so hopefully a beautifullly vectorized future lies ahead for us. So be sure to grab the latest source or binary and give it a testrun.

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Cairo

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2006-03-21 06:14.

Devs Really needs to get hold of this and incorporate it into Cairo, this would make themes really fast. Xara is awesome so just wonder what Inkscape will do, since Xara is superiour.

the inkscape devs should

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2006-03-21 16:16.

the inkscape devs should integrate the xara code into inkscape! that would be awsome!

inkscape and xara

Submitted by nicubunu on Wed, 2006-03-22 02:23.

Developers of both Inkscape and Xara have meet at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon and talked a lot about possible ways to collaborate. Also, some Xara developers are subscribed to the Inkscape mailing list.

Cairo license

Submitted by hauberg on Tue, 2006-03-21 08:49.

Xara Xtreme is GPL, and I think Cairo is released under a BSD style license. This means that the rendering engine from Xara could only be part of Cairo if Cairo changed to GPL or Xara Xtreme to a BSD style license. (I think)

Cairo is LGPL or MPL.

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2006-03-21 11:37.

Cairo is LGPL or MPL.

Wrong

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2006-03-21 10:41.

The BSD license (without advertising clause) is GPL compatible. Meaning you can incorporate BSD code into a GPL project and keep the resulting license GPL. You can not however do the other way around.

If you remember this was the triggering event that caused the fork of XFree to Xorg. XFree included an advertising clause into the license making it incompatible with the GPL. XOrg kept BSD license (or at least BSD-like) without advertising clause and is GPL compatible.

This is however mostly academic in this context since cairo have changed license to LGPL.

If you remember this was the

Submitted by TopDown on Wed, 2006-03-22 05:39.

If you remember this was the triggering event that caused the fork of XFree to Xorg. XFree included an advertising clause into the license making it incompatible with the GPL. XOrg kept BSD license (or at least BSD-like) without advertising clause and is GPL compatible.

Triggering event... Just to be clear, it was the last straw. XFree had long been a hopeless swamp with unfixed bugs and closed development with a few people stroking themselves off about being core developers (basically, your average BSD-inspired project). The license change was the final excuse needed to split it and dump all the baggage.

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You just HAD to get him

Submitted by LosD on Wed, 2006-03-22 21:04.

You just HAD to start him up...

When he's off his anti-Fluendo/anti-GStreamer/anti-Corporate-GNOME trips, he can actually show a bit of intelligence, unfortunately it completely drowns whenever anyone mentions anything remotely tied to his peeves.

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How about a cairo backend?

Submitted by potyl on Tue, 2006-03-21 10:36.

Could it be then 'legal' to create a Cairo backend based on the Xara engine?

I guess

Submitted by hauberg on Tue, 2006-03-21 10:49.

I'm guessing yes, but then only GPL-compatible would be allowed to use that backend.

Yeah

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2006-03-21 07:45.

Yeah, no kidding, I made a blog post and some forum posts trying to get someone to do that. This was roughly 6 months ago when Zara first became OSS. I suppose the difference now is that this is the full version of Zara and that the engine is also being OS'd.