A result of the complex history is that the copyright and licensing situation is unclear. AActive development on VSE has stopped since around 1999<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hoyer|first1=Henrik|title=Is Cincom slowly killing Visual Smalltalk Enterprice|url=http://forum.world.st/Is-Cincom-slowly-killing-Visual-Smalltalk-Enterprice-td2513847.html|website=SmallTalk forum|accessdate=2015-12-23}}</ref> and a typical recent VSE development environment is made up of many elements many of which were developed by third parties and sold separately but are now included with the distribution.
The situation with the most recent release (VSE 2000) is:
