The GNOME project was in progress in August 1997 to make available an substitute to KDE. The KDE is a free of charge software desktop surroundings by means of the intention of relies on the Qt toolkit a portion of software printed by Trolltech by means of the intention of did not utilize a free software license. The members of the GNU project become anxious regarding the utilize of such a toolkit for building a free software desktop and submission and commence two projects. "Harmony", to generate a replacement for the Qt libraries, and the GNOME project to generate an innovative desktop without Qt and built completely on top of free software. In September 2000, subsequent to GNOME had become useable and was gaining attractiveness, Trolltech completed the GNU/Linux version or description of the Qt libraries obtainable beneath together the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) and the QPL, eliminating most of the objections by means of the intention of had fuelled years of licensing debates. The GNOME desktop itself is licensed beneath the LGPL for its libraries, and the GPL for submission by means of the intention of are fraction of the GNOME project itself.
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