Hi,
If we ever decided to retire VisualGDB, we would simply publish a DRM-free version that would not depend on our activation servers, just like Adobe did with the old Photoshop releases. However this isn’t going to happen in any foreseeable future – instead VisualGDB is actively growing and reaching out to new communities – the recently added advanced ESP-IDF project subsystem, the upcoming J-Trace and Arduino support, the planned improvements to the custom action subsystem and many more…