Jason Scott just posted all of the Infocom source, which is glorious!
<TELL "The " D ,GLASS-CASE " is "> <TELL "open">) (T <TELL "closed">)> ) ( >> ) (<VERB? MUNG> )>>
Zarf summarizes:
"This material has been kicking around for a while now. If you search for articles about "the Infocom drive", you'll see some discussion from years past. Actually, don't do that, it's mostly old arguments that don't need to be rehashed.
The point is that a great deal of historical information about Infocom has been preserved - but it's not publicly archived. You can't go research it anywhere. Nobody admits to having it, because it's "proprietary IP", and you're not supposed to trade in that stuff because companies like Activision make the rules.
So when Jason puts this information online, he's taking a stance. The stance is: history matters. Copyright is a balance between the rights of the owner to profit and the rights of the public to investigate, discuss, and increase the sphere of culture. Sometimes the balance needs a kick.
Quite possibly all these repositories will be served with takedown requests tomorrow. I'm downloading local copies for myself tonight, just in case."
If you're in a mirroring mood:
curl "https://api.github.com/users/historicalsource/repos?page=1&per_page=100″ | grep git_url | cut -d \" -f 4 | xargs -L1 git clone
Read on for a fun fact.