not likely to be taken down as the CEO tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118057606159798274

I love how a tongue-in-cheek reply about the lack of syntax highlighting for ZIL files drew the attention of someone who actually implemented syntax highlighting for it.

https://twitter.com/taradinoc/status/1118181848494985216

Who is that handsome mystery developer, where did he come from, and why can't we get enough of him?

We'll probably never know, it's a mystery for the ages.

Rumor has it that he owns http://zilf.io, but that appears to be unfounded

And now it's a PR. By a GitHub engineer even.

https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/4497

And now it's live on GitHub!

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118647837951004672

It's still possible for Activision/Blizzard to send a DMCA takedown, even if the GitHub CEO is excited about it.

Yea, therer's no information on how it was obtained or the license, other than "not considered to be under an open license"

I wonder if this IP is currently owned by Activision/Blizzard

It looks like they might have added some things since you made your archive. The zip you posted is missing the following repos:

stationfall suspect suspended trinity wishbringer witness zork-german zork zork1 zork2 zork3

They are in the zip but GDrive cuts the listing of folders with "...".

stationfall had a book released with it that I thought was hilarious at the time.

Regarding where these files came from:

> The source code was contributed anonymously and represents a snapshot of the Infocom development system at time of shutdown - there is no remaining way to compare it against any official version as of this writing, and so it should be considered canonical, but not necessarily the exact source code arrangement for production.

(From the "witness" readme, and presumably other repos)

Lack of provenance isn’t a barrier to filing a DMCA claim, unfortunately. Likewise, it isn’t really a basis for a counterclaim that I can see.

Yes as submitted here an hour before :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671865