File talk:Flag of Sikkim (1967-1975).svg

Licence

The file is tagged as {{PD-ineligible}}, but the SVG contains embedded tags claiming that it's variously CC BY-SA 2.0 or 2.5. The original uploader's comment was {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} and the embedded author ("Nicholas") seems likely to be the same as the uploader Nichalp, so it seems clear that the author's intent was to licence under CC BY-SA 2.something.

Given the subject matter, is the embedded licence valid? Should the tag be removed from the SVG, or added to Commons? -- JTN (talk) 17:14, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

<dc:rights>
  <cc:Agent>
    <dc:title>ccy-by-sa-2.5</dc:title>
  </cc:Agent>
</dc:rights>

<cc:License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">
  <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"/>
  <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"/>
  <cc:requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"/>
  <cc:requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"/>
  <cc:permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"/>
  <cc:requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"/>
</cc:License>

I should say that I'm trying to re-use the flag and it got picked up by an automated licence check. -- JTN (talk) 09:59, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

If a flag is geometrically extremely simple (the flag of France or whatever), then the image uploader's original intentions may not matter much, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Not suree who changed the license (don't think I did). AnonMoos (talk) 12:35, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Original photo

While trying to find a picture of this flag with less murky licensing (I failed), I came across a photo of what's probably a genuine flag, from the research of one Michel Lupant. I link to it here for interest. -- JTN (talk) 19:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)