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GNOME Project

The GNOME Project develops the GNOME desktop environment, its core applications and the GTK/GLib development platform, supported by the non-profit GNOME Foundation. Its software is free and open source, with licences set per module (for example LGPL-2.1-or-later for GTK and GLib).

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. GNOME produces and maintains around 120 software modules covering the graphical user system, a suite of core apps and an application development platform and runtime.[1]

  2. The GTK 4 toolkit is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later.[2]

  3. The GLib utility library is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later.[3]

  4. The GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in California, is the legal owner of the GNOME, GTK, Flatpak and Flathub trademarks and the GNOME foot logo; uses beyond its trademark guidelines require permission.[4]

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References

  1. GNOME — About · gnome.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Gtk – 4.0 · docs.gtk.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. GLib – 2.0 · docs.gtk.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. GNOME Foundation · foundation.gnome.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
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