Image:Flag of Belarus.svg

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Español: bielorruso

The national flag of Belarus. New version replaces Zscout's "raster embedded in svg" image. The exact colours aren't officially defined; the colours used in this image are Pantone 1795C for red and 370C for green as estimated in Album des Pavillons (see en:Flag of Belarus).

Slovenščina: državna zastava Belorusije
Українська: Прапор Білорусі
It is easy to put a border around this flag:
[[Image:Flag of Belarus.svg|border|100px]]

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[edit] Licensing

Public domain This work is not an object of copyright according to the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 370-XIII of May 16, 1996 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.

Article 8. Works that are not Objects of Copyright

  1. Shall not be objects of copyright:
    • formal documents (laws, judgements, other texts of legal, administrative and judicial nature), and also their official translations;
    • state symbols and signs (flag, coat of arms, anthem, awards, banknotes and other signs);
    • works of folk arts, authors of which are not known.
  2. Copyright does not cover ideas, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or simply information as such, even if they are expressed, reflected, explained or embodied in the work.

Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English.



Comment – According to interstate and international compacts the Republic of Belarus is the legal successor of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Byelorussian SSR.

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of the formal documents, which can be copyrighted.

Public domain This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Zscout370. This applies worldwide.

In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
Zscout370 grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.


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File history

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Date/TimeUserDimensionsFile sizeComment
(current)03:13, 18 January 2007Zscout370900×45054 KBSomething about the ornament bothered me, so I fixed it in about 2 hours
05:41, 7 March 2006Zscout3701200×60013 KBhttp://www.maraphon.com/index.php?section=production&razdel=flags says the ornament is 1/12th of the width of the flag.
23:22, 17 February 2006Vzb83868×4348 KBusing Pantone 1795C for red and 370C for green (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus), conversion in Photoshop
16:44, 17 December 2005Zscout370868×4348 KBI fixed the hoist area.
06:52, 14 September 2005Gmaxwell868×4349 KBOptimize SVG of Zscout's version: remove hacks, fix display bugs, reduce size, and name objects.
23:17, 12 September 2005Gmaxwell710×37057 KBremove black border
21:38, 12 September 2005Gmaxwell710×37057 KBNew rendition of Belarus flag, created in Inkscape. {{GFDL-1.2}}

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