[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#14622) Policy on banned flags

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14622 >

I'd like to make an old Freeciv praxis official policy: Use no illegal 
or restricted flags. See my suggestion of wording in attached diff.

The desired effect is of course that Freeciv should not end up being 
outlawed anywhere.

I have already replaced the (East) Turkestan separatist flag with the 
historical Republic of East Turkestan/Uyghurstan flag to avoid any 
connection with the modern day Islamic separat(terror)ists. I'm also 
planning to rename it simply 'uyghur' since "Turkestan" can refer to 
many different regionalistic claims, however often including historical 
Uyghurstan.

Next I'd like to remove Tibetan nation from the main release, since the 
flag (of the Tibetan government in exile) is forbidden in People's 
Republic of China (PRC). Instead I'll put it in the 
contribution/nations catalog on the ftp.

Taiwan is not threatened by removal, since Republic of China is a 
sovereign state: Therefore the question of its flag being banned in PRC 
or not is irrelevant.

Thoughts?

-Daniel

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On 2005-10-07, at 01.04, Peter Schaefer wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 
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>> 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?
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Daniel
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