On Monday 29 Aug 2011 10:56:03 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Diumenge, 28 d'agost de 2011, David Narvaez vàreu escriure:
> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Chusslove Illich <caslav.i...@gmx.net>
>
> wrote:
> > > I am not speaking with any authority here, but I can't see how deriving
> > > from a source in public domain could be a problem.
> >
> > Well, here's a flag rendered in the same size of the flag we have
> > right now, wiith indexed colors, 72x72 dpi, rendered from the SVG in
> > Wikipedia. Anybody with KDE Runtime checked out who can commit this?
>
> Done.
>
> Albert
Thanks for sorting that guys. Feel free to assign any such bugs to me:-)
It's not aproblem to use the PD Wikipedia flags, it's how I've obtained
several other updates. Technically it's probably impossible to copyright a
'straight' rendering of a country's flag, that copyright usually belongs to
the government concerned and is usually very loosly licensed. Someone would
need to apply some artistic transformation first to be able to claim
copyright.
Just for the record for anyone watching, there is a semi-standard way of
obtaining the flags as follows:
flagPath = KStandardDirs::locate( "locale",
QString::fromLatin1("l10n/%1/flag.png" ).arg( myCountry ) );
We don't have a formal api for it yet as we only have the 21px flags and we
don't want to encourage their use until we have something better. In KF5 I'm
planning an ISO codes library which will probably include SVG flags.
Oh, and standard disclaimer applies: please don't use country flags to
represent languages, they are not a good substitute and can open a can of
worms politically/culturally.
Cheers!
John.
P.S. I'll be adding South Sudan to the locale database shortly, as it now has
an official ISO country code.
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