Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience.
The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2 with underlying technology forked from Gnome Shell. Cinnamon makes users feel at home with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience.
Contributing
Cinnamon is on GitHub at https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon.
Note that some issue may not be with Cinnamon itself. For a list of related components, please see http://developer.linuxmint.com/projects.html and file in the appropriate repo.
License
Cinnamon is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.