From January 9, 1996 till March 29, 2001 the commercial rights to DGD were
licensed exclusively to ichat, inc., which was later renamed to Acuity
Corporation.

As of March 29, 2001 DGD could again be licensed directly from BeeHive Internet
Technologies.

On August 6th, 2005, all rights to DGD were acquired by Dworkin B.V. in the
Netherlands.  BeeHive Internet Technologies, Inc. is still a license holder
and value-added reseller of the software.

On February 3rd, 2010, DGD 1.4 was released under the GNU Affero General Public
License.