The following message is from the XZip man page: You are expressly forbidden to use this program on an Infocom game data file if, in so doing, you violate the copyright notice supplied with the original Infocom game. ... I do not know the exact copyright status of the rest, except that it was written by Mark Howell and thus is probably copyrighted by him. He released it for free, so to the best of my knowledge, it can also be distributed, modified, and used freely, with the exception noted above. This applies to all source code files except glkio.c, which is copyrighted by Daniel Schepler, and glkstart.[ch], which were written by Andrew Plotkin except for minor modifications. The file glkio.c may be distributed, modified, and used freely, with the exception noted above.