“This past holiday (I’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’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…”