[Kde-extra-gear] KDE SVN license policy

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi,

I'm about to move Tellico out of playground and into kdereview, and one of 
the things I was reviewing was the license policy at 
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Policies/Licensing_Policy

I need a little help with the english wording which confuses me.

First, Tellico has been licensed under GPL2 from the beginning (2001 or so). 
I removed the (or later version) clause from the license because it didn't 
make sense to me to allow licensing under terms which I did not know at the 
time.

Tellico falls under Bullet 5 on the techbase page. Do I understand the first 
sub-bullet under 5 to mean the (or later version) clause is required, or 
does it mean that I get to choose GPL2 or later version myself?

In other words, I'm required to dual-license or tri-license, correct? Rather 
than having the author choose the license version, I'm required to allow the 
user to choose the license version? I'm planning to stay with the GPL, I'm 
just trying to understand the restriction.

If I'm reading that right, is there any particular reason? I've read a few 
things about the faults of the GPL2 license, but none seem to carry enough 
weight to forbid a GPL2-only license. Just curious...

Thanks!
Robby