I'm thrilled that you and other people are taking it and running with it! That was the whole point of making it free: it was inspired by Seymour Papert's Constructionist philosophy, Alan Kay's ideas, and the mission of the OLPC.

EA granted the right to use the trademark "SimCity" only if it passed their QA process, and it was quite an ordeal hand holding their QA department through running Linux in a VM on Windows to test it.

Since I never want to go through that ever again, I asked Will Wright for a suggestion about the name, and he recommended its original working title, Micropolis.

At the time, he had to change the name to SimCity because Micropolis was a hard disk drive manufacturer. They eventually changed names then went out of business, but was recently restructured under the name Micropolis GmbH.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropolis_Corporation

Fortunately the owner of Micropolis GmbH is really cool, an old school hacker, who was generous enough to grant the Micropolis Public Name License that allows the game to use the name Micropolis under reasonable conditions:

https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/blob/main/Microp...

Check out his BBS, robotics, and data storage primers:

https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-bbs-primer

https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-robotics-primer

https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-data-storage-primer