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Xara Xtreme available for Linux

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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.

How is this just academic?

How is this just academic? If Xara is GPL and Cairo is LGPL that means that the Cairo project will have to switch license if they incorporate code from Xara. This would not be a good idea in my opinion. They should instead try to convince the Xara project to relicense their code under the LGPL.