Follow-up Comment #1, bug #23814 (project freeciv):

Here's a copy of my analysis in the Debian bug report from Jun 21, for our own
records.

> On Sat, 20. Jun 14:27 Thorsten Alteholz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> data/flags/sikkim.svg seems to be licensed under CC 2.0 which is
>> incompatible with DFSG. Please remove this file from the source tarball.

This was originally added to Freeciv upstream in patch #2011.
Flag is described as "PD image" in that ticket, but the version of
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Sikkim_monarchy.svg that was
current at the time appears to have had a tag {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}}. This
isn't quite the same as what the SVG metadata claims, I think; don't know if
that makes any difference.

The current version on Commons is described as "This file is ineligible for
copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of
information that is common property and contains no original authorship." So
we could use that instead?

>> data/flags/saxony.svg is licensed under CC 3.0. Please mention this in
your
>> debian/copyright.

This was added upstream under patch #2205.
The then-current version of the Commons file
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banner_of_Saxony_(1%5E1).svg was
described as "Permission=Own work, all rights released (Public domain)". The
current version is described as being in the public domain for various
being-a-state-symbol sorts of reasons.

If so, it looks like the embedded licence metadata for this file is in error.

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