FreeCol - Open source game Colonization

For those of you who don’t know about Open Source projects, they are quite brilliant. Open source, as defined by Diciontary.com means: software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers’ ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoid the negative connotations (to suits) of the term “free software“.

For those not in the gaming world, believe me I am not either, Colonization was a spinoff of Sid Meier’s huge success, Civilization.

Yeah, so? So, Colonization has been made open source…. this is huge. (more…)