[Bug 532084] "Sponsored by" logos and notices in repository README files.
Bugzilla Link | 532084 |
Status | NEW |
Importance | P3 normal |
Reported | Mar 06, 2018 15:56 EDT |
Modified | Feb 25, 2020 15:37 EDT |
Description
I'm engaged in a conversation on the IOT PMC mailing list regarding the possible inclusion of a "sponsored by" section in a GitHub repo's README file that lists companies (with logos) that contribute to the project.
By board directive, company logos can only be displayed on a project page under these conditions:
- The company must be a member of the Eclipse Foundation;
- The company needs to have their logo uploaded to the Portal;
- At least one committer has to be listed as an employee of the company in question;
- The committer must be on this project; and
- The committer must be active (must have made at least one commit in the last three months)
The guidance regarding what constitutes a "project page" is, as I recall, not formally defined (sorry, I don't have a link to the minutes). I think, though, that we can reasonably assert that a README file for a Git repository rendered as a webpage is a "project page".
Regardless, the README for a repository feels like the wrong sort of place for this kind of information. We certainly don't want logos being committed into a project repository so that they can be displayed on a README.md file...
Is anybody aware of precedent? What do other projects do? Have you seen this in Eclipse projects?
Am I overthinking this?