DarkGod has indicated (at least to me, via PM when I asked about it, nor sure if there's a public thread anywhere about it -- he may have posted before the Great Forum Crash (in which case it's gone). I'm sure we could convince him to announce it again publicly if necessary.
However, there's a lot of code by a lot of authors. Much of the code could perhaps reasonably be assumed to be licensable under GPL as part of the Angband GPL effort, but this is kind of grey area -- it's not clear to me whether the relicensing in that case was a general "sure, use my Angband (specific version) code under GPL" or "sure, use my Angband (any version) code under GPL".
I'm sure Neil Stevens would also need to give his permission. Not sure if he's around on these forums. I also think Furiosity may have to give permission since the integration of Theme into ToME -- a substantial bit of Theme code was moved to C. I took the license in the Furiosty code to be equivalent to the T2/Angband license.)
I guess a major first step would be in finding out who needs to be contacted and if they have been contacted as part of the relicensing effort for Angband -- I imagine this would involve going through the "credits.txt" file and then going through copyright headers in *.c files. I'm pretty sure that effort must have been documented, but I have no idea where.
Finally, we are only talking about relicensing
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here -- the data files would still be covered under the Angband license (and I believe the same is true of the "new" GPL Angband).
If anyone wants to get this effort started, I'm all for it.