26 Mar
2006
26 Mar
'06
3:09 p.m.
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 09:52 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I chatted with Carl a bit about this. Cairo actually has support for multiple "backends", and there are several (~5?) officially supported backends, plus a couple dozen unsupported ones. The Xara renderer could be provided as a backend that would only be available when using the GPL license option for Cairo. He said the application linking to Cairo would need to pass a string like "I am a GPL application" in order to activate it, or something like that. I also thought this was something worth checking out if it comes to be.
Rather like the GPLONLY export macros in the Linux kernel. Interesting.
-mental