Harold Thomas is an artist who created something and is still fully alive. He has every dam right to do as he wishes with his own creation. He has always had copyright and everyone knows this. It's his creation, it came from him, it's used today exactly as he created, nothing derivative. If you don't want to respect this you can also shove your GPL or shove your copyright over books. You show respect what people crea…
Even if you accept that such a basic shape is copyrightable, it's laughable to have a national flag that is copyrighted and cannot be freely used. When the government declared it a national flag, they should have given him a few million dollars and bought the rights off him. They still can do this easily since they have eminent domain and it applies to IP as well.
But they didn't, so the government can get stuffed.
I love the way you want the government to steal from an indigenous man here. Haven't they stolen enough yet?
Harold Thomas owns it. It's been recognised he owns it. He can do as he wishes with it.
If a bunch of people want to continue following something that's owned by someone else they can, but they follow the creators rules.
Lets just steal Linux off Linus and co because we feel like it shall we. Remove his stupid GPL v2 because we want to.