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>>brayth+(OP)
I'm kind of curious about the license status of this. Zork has been commercially sold (on iOS) within the last 10 years, and I don't quite know how this source would be MIT's to give away, unless there is a deal with whatever legal entity owns Infocom's intellectual property these days.

>>microt+P5
Infocom wasn't founded until 1979 -- this source code is from an earlier version of the game which was widely distributed among PDP-10 systems.

The original authors might have a copyright claim, but it's not clear that Infocom (or its heirs) would.

>>duskwu+y8
I contacted the original authors except Marc, who's email address I don't have. They had no objections. Marc responded on Reddit and seems OK with it.

>>larsbr+yU
That's great, and I did not mean to cast aspersions on the legality or ethics of the release. I just was somewhat uncomfortable not to see any mention of legal terms in the repo, or a mention that the authors were OK with the release.

>>microt+vL1
As far as I understand, some MIT legal department OK'ed this release. Your question about a license is of course very legitimate, and someone posted a GitHub issue about it.