11. Don’t post with the intention of selling something.
Don’t use xda to advertise your product or service. Proprietors of for-pay products or services, may use xda to get feedback, provide beta access, or a free version of their product for xda users and offer support, but not to post with the intention of selling. This includes promoting sites similar/substantially similar to xda-developers.com.
Do not post press releases, announcements, links to trial software, or commercial services. Unless you’re posting an exclusive release for xda-developers.com.
encouraging members to participate in forum activities on other phone related sites is prohibited.
off-site downloads are permitted if the site is non-commercial and does not require registration.
Off-site downloads from sites requiring registration are not encouraged but may be permitted if the following conditions are met:
A) the site belongs to a member of xda-developers with at least 1500 posts and 2 years membership who actively maintains xda-developers' support thread(s) / posts, related to the download,
b) the site is a relatively small personal website without commercial advertising/links (i.e. Not a competitor forum-based site with purposes and aims similar to those of xda-developers.com.)