 Today, Blender is free and open-source software, largely developed by its community as well as 15 employees employed by the Blender Institute.The Blender Foundation initially reserved the right to use dual licensing, so that, in addition to GPLv2, Blender would have been available also under the "Blender License" that did not require disclosing source code but required payments to the Blender Foundation.However, they never exercised this option and suspended it indefinitely in 2005.