Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 12th Jan 2008 21:33 UTC
The source code to the original SimCity game has been released under the GPL, with all references to the SimCity name removed due to 
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...considering the already excellent clone LinCity, which has a much better GUI than the outdated SimCity Classic. If they had opensourced SimCity 2000, well..
Initially the original SimCity is primarily release to get the game on the XO laptop and will get some enhancements as pointed out in the article to take advantage of XO system. EA has the final say whether SimCity 2000 and its sequel will be open-sourced.
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Notwithstanding how nice Lincity-NG might look, opensourcing SimCity is a great move, IMHO. I have always felt that the logic, or AI, or whatever you want to call it, in the actual SimCity games to be better than the Lincity ones. Who knows -- maybe the LinCity developers can take the best bits from SimCity and make LinCity even better.
At the end of the day, opening up SimCity can only be beneficial.
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...considering the already excellent clone LinCity, which has a much better GUI than the outdated SimCity Classic. If they had opensourced SimCity 2000, well...
http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page