Re: [Savannah-help-public] Ads in GPL projects

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

At Savannah we have the following hosting policy:

"Advertisements

In general, you may not advertise anything commercial on a site hosted
here. However, as exceptions, you can point people to commercial
support offerings for your Free Software project, and you can mention
fan items about your Free Software project that you sell directly to
the users."

However that doesn't apply to the software per se.


We think it is acceptable for your software to display ads, especially
since they can easily be removed by the users.

However, these ads cannot be hosted at Savannah, so you need to fetch
them from somewhere else (nor can you include them with the software
package).


If you wish to thank Savannah, the FSF will be glad to accept a
donation from you :)
https://www.fsf.org/donate


I don't know of any legal issues with displaying advertising in GNU
GPL'd software.

-- 
Sylvain Beucler


On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Immanuel Halupczok wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> In the project "cuyo" (hosted at savannah), there was some space left in 
> a window, and as a joke, I put "Your ad here" in that space. Now someone 
> took this for serious and asked if he could "buy" that space.
> 
> I have the following questions now:
> 
> 1. Is it okay for savannah to host a project which contains an ad?
> (The project would still be 100% gpl; in particular, everyone is allowed 
> to remove the ad.)
> 
> If the answer to this question is no, then no need to answer the 
> remaining questions.
> 
> 
> 2. Any opinion on who should get what part of the money? (I think, 
> savannah should get a part of it.)
> 
> 
> 
> 3. If you had any information about legal issues, (or of other cases of 
> gpl software with ads inside), I would be glad if you could help me.
> 
> 
> 
> I hope I didn't waste too much of your time
> 
>            Immanuel
> 
> 
> 
> PS: If you want to know more details, just ask.