Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I tīmata a GNOME i te 15 o Akuhata 1997 e Miguel de Icaza rāua ko Federico Mena hei kaupapa pūmanawa koreutu hei whakawhanake i tētahi taiao papamahi me ngā taupānga mō taua kaupapa. I whakatuhia i tetahi waahanga na te mea ko te Taiao Papamahi K, e tipu haere ana i te rongonui, i whakawhirinaki ki te kete taputapu widget Qt i whakamahia he raihana raupaparorohiko motuhake tae noa ki te putanga 2.0 (Hune 1999). Hei whakakapi i te Qt, ko te kete taputapu GTK i whiriwhiria hei turanga o GNOME. Ka whakamahia e GTK te GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), he raihana raihana raupaparorohiko koreutu e ahei ai te raupaparorohiko e hono ana ki a ia ki te whakamahi i te huinga raihana whanui ake, tae atu ki nga raihana raupaparorohiko rangatira. Ko te ingoa "GNOME" i te tuatahi he kupu poto mo te GNU Network Object Model Environment, e pa ana ki te kaupapa taketake ki te hanga i tetahi anga ahanoa tohatoha rite ki te OLE a Microsoft, engari i te mutunga ka hinga te kupu poto na te mea kaore i te whakaatu i te tirohanga o te kaupapa GNOME.I hangaia e te tiimata o California a Eazel te kaiwhakahaere konae Nautilus mai i te 1999 ki te 2001. I whakatūria e De Icaza rāua ko Nat Friedman a Helix Code (i muri mai ko Ximian) i te tau 1999 i Massachusetts; i whakawhanakehia e tēnei kamupene ngā hanganga me ngā tono a GNOME, ā, i te tau 2003 i hokona e Novell.  Pātai: He aha te kupu poto mō te raihana e whakamahia ana e GTK?
Ko te LGPL