Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An fara GNOME a ranar 15 ga Agusta 1997 ta Miguel de Icaza da Federico Mena a matsayin aikin software na kyauta don haɓaka yanayin tebur da aikace-aikace don shi. An kafa shi a wani ɓangare saboda K Desktop Environment, wanda ke ƙaruwa cikin shahara, ya dogara da kayan aikin widget na Qt wanda ke amfani da lasisin software na mallaka har zuwa sigar 2.0 (Yuni 1999). A maimakon Qt, an zaɓi kayan aikin GTK a matsayin tushen GNOME. GTK yana amfani da GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), lasisin software na kyauta wanda ke ba da damar software da ke haɗi da shi don amfani da lasisi da yawa, gami da lasisin software na mallaka. GNOME kanta tana da lasisi a ƙarƙashin LGPL don laburarensa, da GNU General Public License (GPL) don aikace-aikacensa.Sunan "GNOME" da farko ya kasance taƙaice ne na GNU Network Object Model Environment, yana nufin ainihin niyyar ƙirƙirar tsarin rarraba abu mai kama da Microsoft's OLE, amma a ƙarshe an sauke taƙaice saboda ba ta ƙara nuna hangen nesa na aikin GNOME ba.Kaddamarwar California Eazel ta haɓaka mai sarrafa fayil na Nautilus daga 1999 zuwa 2001. De Icaza da Nat Friedman sun kafa Helix Code (daga baya Ximian) a cikin 1999 a Massachusetts; wannan kamfanin ya haɓaka kayan aikin GNOME da aikace-aikace, kuma a cikin 2003 Novell ya saya.  Tambaya: Yaya aka kira lambar Helix daga baya?
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