[Fsfe-uk] Free advertising on ukgov websites

[MJ Ray]

Some of you may have seen the recent blog post
http://blogs.fsfe.org/maelle/?p=60
about those government websites which link to Adobe's PDF reader
which is also discussed at
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.europe.discussion/3597

I'm pretty sure that links are advertising.  Lots of businesses
would love an main-body link from .gov.uk and would probably pay
for them.  Heck, I get approaches offering to buy links on much
less attractive sites that the co-op maintaines.

However, does anyone know the law about advertising on ukgov
websites?  Are those adverts legal in the UK?

Thanks for any info,
-- 
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
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