On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:57:33PM -0400, mental@...3... wrote:
Quoting "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...>:
Well... if we don't share too much code, at the least, we should snag their rendering engine. ;)
If the license is compatible, and the code is clean, yes!
The license will be GPL.
One thing to keep in mind is that one of the argues AGAINST a company open sourcing their codebase is a worry that "then they'll just take our code, and we'll fail." So I think it would be most prudent to talk not about snagging code, but _sharing_ it.
For instance, perhaps think about if we can help them package their renderer in a way that would allow both Inkscape and Xara to use it as a common library. This way, if we find bugs or make improvements to the renderer, they'll benefit as well.
I would be so tremendously happy if we could just replace the whole SPCanvas stack and be done with it...
And, you know, it would not be at all incompatible with later Cairofication. Cairo is simply the lowest-level layer of the rendering stack.
Charles and I also discussed Cairo a bit. They're aware of Cairo, and some collaboration is certainly possible there too in the future, but Xara's renderer is *tons* faster than Cairo at present, so that's even more of a concern for them than it's been for us.
Bryce