[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Illegal flags

[Peter Schaefer <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, some of these flags would be valid for historical reasons,
though I wonder about Turkestan/Kurdistan - for both of these areas,
it seems to me (IANAH) that the area never was as a whole the home of
a "player" in the last 2500 years.

I suppose that PR China would not be be to pleased; on the other hand,
both Tibet and Taiwan were established territories; if Bavaria gets a
flag why not these.

Maybe some of the "lesser" and the contested nations could be split
off into a nation-pack so that a "freeciv-light" could be savely
distributed in China.

Or you could just place USA, Tibet and Taiwan under the "ficticious
nations" section and piss of everyone ;-)

On 10/6/05, Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was reading some very old mailing list archives, and came upon a very
> fierce discussion about a Nazi Germany nation. To make a long story
> short, the project was rejected because the Nazi swastika flag is
> banned by law in Germany (depending on context).
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> Then I came to think about three flags in Freeciv that are potentially
> controversial in China (PRC): Taiwan (aka Republic of China), Tibet and
> Turkestan. The two latter being my responsibility. Of these I know for
> sure that the flag of Tibet is forbidden in PRC. Should we care about
> whether Freeciv is a controversial software package in PRC or not?
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> Yet one flag that I have provided but not yet been committed, is the
> flag of Kurdistan: A flag that is banned in Syria and Iran...
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