RE: nazi flag ?

Hello!

We are not talking so much about drawing app per se,
bu about the clipart gallery of drawing app. Most of us seem
to think that distributing one is good idea, so the flags remain
there for a foreseeable future.
And no, we do not have to distribute any explanation at all with
these flags. They are just pieces of clipart to use in graphic
works - whoeven wants to use them, better learn how and why,
and what consequences any of them may carry.
Educating people is not the job of graphic app, but providing
useful clipart is.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jeff
Smith
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sodipodi-list] nazi flag ?


>Nestor Diaz Valencia wrote:
> Without writting a History Book to explain the flags, it has no sense to
have
> them.
> Just two lines will not explain all the crimes made in the name of flags,
> including in the name of the spanish flag.
> They will just led to this discussions or to move away.
> History is being written all the time, what about if a make a great
> composition with sodipodi, a banner defending nazism ideas? or communist?
> again, a clipart is ok, but a flags clipart is the worst idea both for an
> opensource community and for a sofware development project.
> Send those flags to the wikipedia and made them available in an apropriate
> context.

Now *THAT* is a great idea.  We are getting too many flags to give each its
due explaination.  We have national flags, state flags, political flags,
historic flags, and so on.  I don't think a list for a drawing application
is the appropriate platform for the debates that accompany them.  However,
I would hate all the hard work that has gone into these go to waste.  I
think wikipedia would be a very appropriate place (though I do not know
what their acceptance policies are like).  If there is not an article which
fits the flag, write one (even a skeleton one) and improve wikipedia!



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