ToME WikiReenenLaurie: OK, so we want ToME to be GPL so people can put it on distribution CD's. Right?
And the main thing of Angband license that prevents it being bundled in a distro is that it says "you are not allowed to sell it", right?
So basically GPL says you may sell it, but you must also give it for free. Which violates angband lisence.
So theoretically it can be bundled with distros that will never be sold, like unbuntu (I don't think you ever pay for an unbuntu CD). What stops you to have a CD with Angband License stuff on if you specify on the CD that the CD may not be sold?
The CD isn't GPL... the lisence of the software on it is. Anyway, it's all a little fuzzy for me at the moment. (Some issues with OpenArena has made me wonder about these things)
DarkGod: The idea is that the T-Engine will be GPL but ToME will be angband licence. This way a distrib can ship the engine without the game(and when run it'll just download ToME autoamtically).
NeilStevens: I don't care about Ubuntu. That's not my concern. I just want a better license because when I distribute my code, I want it to have a few restrictions as I can muster. I'd never use the GNU GPL on my own code, but if the choices are Moria and GNU GPL, then I have to go with the GNU GPL.
ReenenLaurie: I read about 'Karmaware' somewhere... which is basically very similar to Angband license.
Geek-o: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ has a list of licenses, if you're looking at wanting tome to be included in various linux distributions (or compilation cd's or whatever) LGPL is probably a better place to start than GPL... as the GPL is far more restrictive about linking to "non-free" things like... modules. The guile license is also a good license since you want the game modules to be under a different set of licenses than the actual engine that runs them. Modified BSD would be good also. Just a few thoughts.... GPL is pretty restrictive about linking non-free things.