Open-Sourcing Inform 7
The punch line is that Graham Nelson still has not open-sourced Inform 7, but hopes to do so in 2019.  So, if you decide to build your work on Inform 7 and Graham gets unexpectedly run over by a tram like Gaudi, you&#x27;re very likely out of luck; you won&#x27;t have the legal right to fix problems in the platform, port it to new platforms (such as, as he notes, iOS), or remove whatever spyware his heirs decide to add to &quot;monetize the platform&quot;.<p>So, it&#x27;s nice to hear that he&#x27;s making concrete steps forward, but the bottom line is that he&#x27;s still not open-sourcing it, just continuing to promise to open-source it, as he has been doing for many years.<p>With that in mind, I think the title of the HN post is misleading; it would be more accurate to entitle it &quot;Not Open-Sourcing Inform 7&quot;, and still better to entitle it &quot;Not Yet Open-Sourcing Inform 7.&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s a shame, because Inform 7 looks like one of the most interesting experiments in programming-language design today, and has been for years.  Years that I haven&#x27;t tried it, because downloading and installing proprietary software is not my idea of a fun pastime.