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GTK predates gnome and RedHat, but was (at the start) really just a code layer in the GIMP.

Gnome was a response to KDE, and explicitly aimed to produce a KDE-quality Free desktop environment. If they were intellectually honest they'd have abandoned/merged the project when Qt was relicensed.



You dont let your users down just because someone else changed their license.




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