GNOME Is Old Enough To Vote

Posted by brideoflinux on Aug 17, 2015 10:36 AM EDT
FOSS Force; By Christine Hall
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The project’s original purpose, in large part, was to keep free software free. KDE had begun development the previous year using Trolltech’s then proprietary Qt framework. GNOME was built using the GTK+ toolkit, which had been created for GIMP and was licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The GNOME desktop was released under the LGPL, with most of its applications licensed under the GPL, making GNOME and its apps totally free software.

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