The core source code of the numerical and graphical libraries is licensed by the GNU General Public License. The interactive development environment (IDE) used by SCaViS has some restrictions for commercial usage since language files, documentation files, examples, installer, code-assist databases, interactive help are licensed by the creative-common license. Full members of the SCaViS project have several benefits, such as: the license for a commercial usage, access to the source repository, an extended help system, a user script repository and an access to the complete documentation