this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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[–] Potatisen 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

GPL3 details in case you're wondering

  1. Anyone can copy, modify and distribute this software.
  2. You have to include the license and copyright notice with each and every distribution.
  3. You can use this software privately.
  4. You can use this software for commercial purposes.
  5. If you dare build your business solely from this code, you risk open-sourcing the whole code base.
  6. If you modify it, you have to indicate changes made to the code.
  7. Any modifications of this code base MUST be distributed with the same license, GPLv3.
  8. This software is provided without warranty.
  9. The software author or license can not be held liable for any damages inflicted by the software.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good license. If you want to mod the game, your code will need to be open source (in theory), so there could end up being open source modding communities around them.

[–] 9point6 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Whilst I'm pretty excited about this in general, it's got me even more excited that a positive reception of this might spur EA on to actually do some more good, and release the sources for games from other defunct studios they're doing nothing with like Bullfrog

I'd love for the community to give games like theme hospital, dungeon keeper and populous a lick of paint

Maybe some of the old weirder maxis games too, like SimAnt & SimCopter

[–] Agent_Karyo 6 points 2 days ago

I am personally hoping that they release the Simcity 2000 or Simcity 3000 source.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This will be absolutely amazing for potential source ports.

[–] Agent_Karyo 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, boiiii!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Looking forward to a source port for Renegade. That game deserved so much better than it got.