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>They have a special section in their ToS that prohibits advertising

Ehm, your quote does not quite support your statement:

>We do not generally prohibit use of GitHub for advertising

It's a TOS, worded for PR, besides which it's unenforceable and at the whim of GitHub.

It's like building a business on Google Reader or FB Parse.

We have advocates at GitHub and are in discussions with their compliance team. Code Sponsor is not directly tied to GitHub for it to be successful. Many of our developers are making money through different channels such as npm or their own generated documentation website.

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