{"id":2587,"date":"2008-01-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/14\/sim-city-goes-open-source\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T15:00:00","slug":"sim-city-goes-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/sim-city-goes-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Sim City Goes Open Source!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is big.  Sim City, the really cool computer game simulation program, is open source as of now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This past holiday (I&#8217;ve been bugging him since November about it) my good friend Don Hopkins got a lot of work done on the finishing touches on releasing the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public Library (GPL). The code won&#8217;t have reference to any SimCity name as that has all be renamed to Micropolis. Micropolis was the original working title of the game and since EA requires that the GPL open source version not use the same name as SimCity (to protect their trademark) a little work had to be done to the code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/bsimser\/archive\/2008\/01\/10\/simcity-source-code-released-to-the-wild-let-the-ports-begin.aspx\">here.<\/a>It&#8217;s going to be a while before this turns into anything that matters to most of us, but the process will be intersting to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is big. Sim City, the really cool computer game simulation program, is open source as of now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-FJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}