SimCity original becomes free software

Sunday, November 11. 2007

SimCity original becomes free software

SimCityThe One Laptop per Child project will soon release a free software version of the classic SimCity game. The company agreed to publish the code under a GPL-license. It'll however contain a clause that modified versions are not allowed to be named SimCity, else it's completely free software.

I think that's great news and would welcome it if more classic games could be freed. Computer games are their own form of culture and we need more projects to protect this kind of culture.

SimCity at the OLPCWiki
Posted by Hanno Böck in Computer culture, Linux, Retro Games at 22:37 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)
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Interesting stuff here on this blog! I really loved that old simcity.. still the best game that became free is GTA2, i wish all games were free after 10 years or so..
#1 Kevin Fernandez on 2007-12-05 07:00 (Reply)

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