Share your IDL code with the large and growing community of IDL users around the planet. Visit the IDL User-Contributed Library to find valuable, time-saving routines written by other users around the world.

Share images, animations and even 3-dimensional VRML scenes created in IDL with anyone, whether they have IDL themselves or not.

Share data and interactive applications over the Web using ION
(IDL On the Net).

Distribute your programs without revealing your source code via IDL's proprietary binary format, known as save files. Save files can be run with the free IDL Virtual Machine or with a "runtime" license of IDL. Both are streamlined installations specifically for people who need to run IDL programs without a development license of IDL.

If you plan large-scale distribution of your IDL applications, IDL embedded licenses and a Right-to-Distribute agreement may be ideal for you.