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==Recent history==

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After many years of Inventor being solely available under proprietary licensing from TGS (today, now [[FEI Company|FEI]]), itInventor has wasbeen released under the [[LGPL]] [[open source license]], in August 2000, which is available from SGI.

At approximately the same time, an API clone library called [[Coin3D]] was released by the company SIM (Systems in Motion). SIM was later acquired by the Kongsberg group and re-branded as [[Kongsberg SIM]]. The Coin library had been written in a [[clean room design|clean room]] fashion from scratch, sharing no code with the original SGI Inventor library, but implementing the same API for compatibility reasons. Kongsberg ended development of Coin3D in 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home|title=Coin3D / Coin / wiki / Home — Bitbucket|publisher=}}</ref> and released the code under the BSD 3-clause license.