The original Moria/Angband software license allowed distribution of the game, but only does so if "not for profit", which precludes packaging with many Linux distributions or inclusion within a magazine cover disc. The license also does not explicitly allow code modification, something which is in practice ignored by the "Angband" community. In light of these perceived issues, an initiative to re-license "Angband" was therefore started by maintainer Rühlmann in 2000. This ""Angband Open Source Initiative"" was designed to make "Angband" proper Open source under the GPL license. The process was completed on 9 January 2009.