File:Flag of Belarus.svg

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).

It is easy to put a border around this image:
	[[File:Flag of Belarus.svg\|border\|100px]]
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[edit] Licensing

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

Article 8. Works that are not Objects of Copyright

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^[1]);
- works of folk arts, authors of which are not known.
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.

↑ Postage stamps are state signs according to the Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 258-З of December 15, 2003 on Mail Service

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.

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.

[edit] derivative works

Derivative works of this file:

Flag of Belarus and Germany.svg

File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:34, 15 September 2009		1,200×600 (1 KB)	Permjak (talk \| contribs)	(Compression of a code. The ornament is taken from a site [http://www.vexilla-mundi.com/belarus_flag.html Vexilla-mundi].)
	21:40, 11 January 2008		600×300 (8 KB)	Pianist (talk \| contribs)	(I have corrected colors and have reduced the size of the file.)
	10:16, 9 January 2008		600×300 (21 KB)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	(Reduced SVG code to a degree)
	03:13, 18 January 2007		900×450 (54 KB)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	(Something about the ornament bothered me, so I fixed it in about 2 hours)
	05:41, 7 March 2006		1,200×600 (13 KB)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	(http://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 2006		868×434 (8 KB)	Vzb83 (talk \| contribs)	(using Pantone 1795C for red and 370C for green (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus), conversion in Photoshop)
	16:44, 17 December 2005		868×434 (8 KB)	Zscout370 (talk \| contribs)	(I fixed the hoist area.)
	06:52, 14 September 2005		868×434 (9 KB)	Gmaxwell (talk \| contribs)	(Optimize SVG of Zscout's version: remove hacks, fix display bugs, reduce size, and name objects.)
	23:17, 12 September 2005		710×370 (57 KB)	Gmaxwell (talk \| contribs)	(remove black border)
	21:38, 12 September 2005		710×370 (57 KB)	Gmaxwell (talk \| contribs)	(New rendition of Belarus flag, created in Inkscape. {{GFDL-1.2}})