On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:08:04PM -0800, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
I recently found that Deluge is using country flags to indicate the
location of bittorrent peers. Flags are cute and nice of course (and a
mental exercise), but are geopolitical hot spots.
I don't really have anything to add other than that this seems like a
good topic, you've given the scope some good thought. If this is not
really on-topic for legal, you could bring it to
fedora-advisory-board.
What I've always "heard" about why we don't use flags for languages in
fact matches what is on wiki/Languages. I always considered it simple
respect for the varying opinions in the world, combined with the fact
that a language is not the same as a country, so using flags is
inaccurate.
For a torrent tracker that is in fact tied to a country of origin for
the torrent source, the flag makes sense. The upstream has to be
willing to keep that updated, though; when a country changes flags,
for example. However, is there a source for free-as-in-freedom images
for all flags? Is Deluge making their own?
- Karsten
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