ViSBARD has received permission to be released under a NASA Open Source Software Agreement license by GSFC's Innovative Partnerships Program Office as of September 2009. The code will be made available as the details are ironed out and a public repository is configured.

Estimated availability is November 2009.

ViSBARD is written in Sun Microsystems' Java programming language. It contains components from NASA's Common Data Format (CDF) library, the SPDF's Web Services libraries, and the CCMC's Kameleon MHD data interpolation library. Open-source software is used from the Orbit Visualization Tool for Tsyganenko field line plotting, JDOM library for Java access to XML functionality, the log4j library for logging output to the terminal, and the Xerces library for parsing XML, which are all covered under the Apache open source license.  The com.stevesoft.pat library is used for RegEx processing and is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License.