Matthias Pleh Wrote: > Stephan schrieb: > > I dunno if anyone knew this before but i wanted to give my kudos to a > > guy that did a lot for the D community by developing the still best > > debugger for the D Programming Language Ddbg > > (http://ddbg.mainia.de/releases.html) > > > > The question often came up why it is not updated anymore. Well the > > reason for this is that Jascha Wetzel the developer of Ddbg earns the > > big bucks now with his product Turbolence 4D (http://jawset.com/) and > > his company "Jawset Visual Computing" > > > > "TURBULENCE.4D makes the most realistic and efficient methods in CG > > fluid dynamics available in standard software" > > > > Well and recently his product got used in the new Bruce Willis movie > > "Surrogates" (http://chooseyoursurrogate.com/). > > > > All in all I whish him the best for the future and that he will never > > forget D when developing next cutting edge software. > > > > > > > > The downside is that Ddbg finally needs a new developer for the future > > to get updated. > > > In the second part of the mentioned restrictions in the license.txt is > written: > * You may only redistribute the software unmodified, in the form and > prepackaging it is available from the official website. > > It's seems as if redistributing of a changed version is not allowed. > (But perhaps my english understanding is not good enought, I'm not an > english native speaker :) > So in this case, we need to write a debugger from scratch. > > greets > matthias
I am sure if one has a strong intent to take over ddbg development, Jascha would not mind changing the license for this project, since he is not interested in it himself.
