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You can now download the source code for all Infocom text adventure classics
The source code of every Infocom text adventure game has been uploaded to code-sharing repository GitHub, allowing savvy programmers to examine and build upon some of the most beloved works of digital storytelling to date.
There are numerous repositories under the name historicalsource, each for a different game. Titles include, but are not limited to, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall, Shogun, and several Zork games—plus some more unusual inclusions like an incomplete version of Hitchhiker's sequel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Infocom samplers, and an unreleased adaptation of James Cameron's The Abyss.
Also at Motherboard.
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Infocom Text Game Source Code Released on GitHub (Including Zork)
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @06:48AM
Not to turn... morbid, but I think the reality is someone realised they were aging.
I keep excellent backups, but I surely don't expect my relatives / friends to keep good care of, and to ensure my backups are safe.
I can just imagine someone sitting, realising they're 70 or 65.. they have these backups, and everything would be lost forever should one pass. Yet, perhaps, they don't have the legal authority to release said backups... and certainly not add a new license...
So, they did what they could.