Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: GNOME yakatangwa musi wa 15 Nyamavhuvhu 1997 naMiguel de Icaza naFederico Mena seprojekiti yemahara software yekugadzira nharaunda yedesktop uye kunyorera kwayo. Yakagadzwa muchidimbu nekuti K Desktop Nzvimbo, iyo yaive ichikura mukuzivikanwa, yaivimba neQt widget toolkit iyo yaishandisa rezinesi reproprietary software kusvika vhezheni 2.0 (Chikumi 1999). Panzvimbo peQt, GTK toolkit yakasarudzwa kuti ive hwaro hweGNOME. GTK inoshandisa GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), rezinesi remahara software inobvumidza software inobatanidza kwariri kushandisa seti yakakura kwazvo yemarezinesi, kusanganisira marezinesi esoftware ane muridzi. GNOME pachayo inobvumirwa pasi peLGPL yemaraibhurari ayo, uye GNU General Public License (GPL) yezvikumbiro zvayo. Zita rekuti "GNOME" pakutanga raive chirevo cheGNU Network Object Model Environment, richitaura nezve chinangwa chekutanga chekugadzira chinhu chakagoverwa chakafanana neOLE yeMicrosoft, asi chirevo ichi chakazobviswa nekuti hachisisiri kuratidza chiratidzo cheprojekti yeGNOME.Kutanga kweCalifornia Eazel yakagadzira maneja wefaira Nautilus kubva muna 1999 kusvika 2001. De Icaza naNat Friedman vakatanga Helix Code (yakazozivikanwa seXimian) muna 1999 muMassachusetts; kambani iyi yakagadzira zvivakwa zveGNOME uye mashandisirwo, uye muna 2003 yakatengwa naNovell.  Mubvunzo: Chii chinonzi chirevo chemvumo inoshandiswa neGTK?
LGPL