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These guys have bluntly copied woopra.com
What were the criteria for including some disputed states (South Ossetia, Somaliland) while excluding others (Transnistria, Azawad)?
When we made them we used this > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sovereign-state_flags and a bit of > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_unrecognized_stat...
As for the license itself -- even though I used to work on licensing and UI for Wikimedia Commons, I acknowledge this can be quite confusing, so I sympathize. I've rewritten this comment a couple of times already.
It's not clear to me if you can re-release everything under any single license. It's also unclear to me if you can assert copyright over the whole thing, as you must if you are going to use a CC license or the BSD-style license you used.
However, I would suggest that whatever you are doing, you should not arbitrarily reassign the work to a BSD license. They are not designed for graphics, since they require publication of the license wherever the graphic is used. Imagine if you wanted to use the icon on a postcard; according to the license you'd have to include the license text on the postcard. If you want these to be used widely Creative Commons Zero is much better... assuming you can assert copyright for the whole thing as a derivative work.
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
The really pedantically correct thing would be to list the licenses for each and every flag, but I acknowledge that would be no fun at all, and as far as I know Wikimedia Commons doesn't have tools to make that easy with large collections.
Sorry for the legalese - I think you did a great thing here, I'm just trying to help you share it with others.
They're free, but require attribution unless you buy a 'royalty-free license.'
For people saying "don't use flags", and "especially not for languages"... I totally agree in theory, but... In a lot of interfaces, having something visual helps a lot. Especially when you need to pick something from a list where you don't even know what language the user speaks! Obviously, you can present a text list like "English (American)", "Português (Brasil)", "አማርኛ", "贛語", but it can look kind of ugly, how do…
For people saying "don't use flags", and "especially not for languages"... I totally agree in theory, but... In a lot of interfaces, having something visual helps a lot. Especially when you need to pick something from a list where you don't even know what language the user speaks! Obviously, you can present a text list like "English (American)", "Português (Brasil)", "አማርኛ", "贛語", but it can look kind of ugly, how do…
So the option to have icons you can freely use without accidently stepping upoon somebodies IP can only be a good thing and counter any arguments about flag copyrights and images. Amazing how even the simplest common items can be copyrighted - swiss clock being one even Apple slipped up upon. So some free ones are always good.
For people saying "don't use flags", and "especially not for languages"... I totally agree in theory, but... In a lot of interfaces, having something visual helps a lot. Especially when you need to pick something from a list where you don't even know what language the user speaks! Obviously, you can present a text list like "English (American)", "Português (Brasil)", "አማርኛ", "贛語", but it can look kind of ugly, how do…
How is Esperanto classified?
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Agree about aspect ratios, but we should expect rgb colors to be accurate.
If you check out the flat flags the colors are exact, obviously the styled ones have subtle shadowing etc, and are probably out by a very small margin.
It's not a big problem in my opinion - no-one should be overly hung up about minor anomalies like that for web icons - but it's not true to say the colours are exact.
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When we made them we used this > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sovereign-state_flags and a bit of > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_unrecognized_stat...
Thanks for making these, but I wish you would have also acknowledged the sources in your LICENSE.txt. As for the license itself -- even though I used to work on licensing and UI for Wikimedia Commons, I acknowledge this can be quite confusing, so I sympathize. I've rewritten this comment a couple of times already. It's not clear to me if you can re-release everything under any single license. It's also unclear to me…
Using flags in your visual design can be tempting but in my experience it's a bad idea. The problem is that certain flags force you to "take sides" in political disputes that you likely aren't aware of and don't understand. You'll inadvertently make one side very angry with you, and you won't even really know what political statement you accidentally made. It's OK if you stick to flags you know but if you start tryin…
OK, I'll bite. Design is all about making decisions, which will invariably make person A happy and person B unhappy (for some values of A and B). Look at how many people are ranting this month about Apple's decision to remove X11.app from OS X, for example, even though you can download a newer version for free. If your goal in building software is to make every person on the planet satisfied, you are setting yourself…
The UN/ISO list has Taiwan as "Taiwan, Province of China". Go look for that string in any operating system, app or on any website that is internationally popular - you won't find it. The ISO is not neutral, and the Time Zone Setup guys know this.