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After many years of being solely available under proprietary licensing from TGS, now [[FEI Company|FEI]], Inventor has been 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://github.com/coin3d/coin/wiki|title=Coin3D / Coin / wiki / Home — BitbucketGithub|publisher=}}</ref> and released the code under the BSD 3-clause license.

The open source version from SGI is not currently maintained and SGI has not shown any commitment to do further development of the library. However, the open source release is used in MeVisLab (MeVis Medical Solutions AG and Fraunhofer MEVIS) and development on it continues.<ref>[http://www.mevislab.de MeVisLab]</ref>