Hi Joel, On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Joël Krähemann <jkraehem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have got promised a small donation from linuxfund and want to > promote it on http://nongnu.org/gsequencer/index.html with a badge or > banner. > > Since I read there is no advertising allowed I really want to be sure > what goes into that policy. > > http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/NoAdvertising/
If you put a badge or banner on your site to an external site, that might be considered advertising. I'm not a Savannah administrator, just another Savannah user, but I can explain how I would interpret that page. There appear to be two reasons advertising isn't present on Savannah. 1) You need to ensure that the advertised/linked page(s) do not advertise competing products, i.e. software that isn't hosted on Savannah but does similar things, and that any linked software is free/libre. 2) You need to figure out how to feed potential revenue back to Savannah (you are getting free hosting here, and many volunteers put in hundreds of hours a year to keep it running). I can see how many free software projects can benefit from having a relationship with an organization that provides paid consulting services and would like to give back. It would make sense to list these patrons on a sub-page of the project, much like the FSF does (note: this isn't the main FSF homepage - one needs to look for the list of patrons, which includes ones making/distributing proprietary software): https://www.fsf.org/patrons Jan
