Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On 05/19/2009 04:24 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> Note that this one is tricky.  A generic flag is fine.  But if a real
>> group (not necessarily a country) associates themselves with the flag,
>> it would become banned under the current policy.
>
> Then what would a "generic" flag be? Single-color flags are often used by
> political groups (e.g. all black = fascist, so if you thought to avoid the
> issue by using that, you've just made it worse).
>
"""
Flag images which are not specific to any location, country, nation, 
geopolitical entity, language, ethnocultural concept, religion, 
political movement, or institutions are permitted
"""

So yep, as you point out, the generic flag exception is somewhat hard to 
work with.

> The only reasonable definition of "generic" I can see is "this flag is not
> used to represent a country", e.g. a set of flags being used as an icon
> for "localization".
>

That's unfortunately not the definition being used here.  If it was, it 
would be a more helpful clause.

-Toshio