Package Maintainers Flags policy

Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) bochecha at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 19 13:50:21 UTC 2009


> And then your next question is "does the Chinese gov't really care about a
> linux distro having a Taiwanese or Tibetan flag in some programs it ships?"
> and the answer to that question is yes, very much.
>
> So, of course does this mean we are siding with china? No, we're not siding
> with anyone, that's the whole point.
>
> Flags mean a lot to a lot of people. They carry a lot of patriotic crap
> w/them.

But what is the official internationally recognized status of Taiwan ?

If that's a part of china, then it's not an actual country, then we
can remove its flag.

If that's an independent country, then it has a flag, and we can use it.

I really wonder why we are trying to solve those geopolitical
international issues. Those are for the governments and the UN to
solve. They agree on a list of officially recognized countries, and we
use it.

I really can't understand where the problem comes from :-/

Are there countries not agreeing with each others regarding the
official status of other countries (not like country A says country B
is inside country A, but rather country A and country B disagree on
the status of country C) ? Are there countries that disagree with the
UN regarding the official status of a "geographic area" ?


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)




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