scanEUr does not use affiliate links, paid placement, paid ranking, sponsored recommendations, or monetized recommendations.
The project forbids:
- Affiliate links.
- Referral links.
- Paid vendor placement.
- Paid ranking changes.
- Sponsored recommendation blocks.
- Monetized alternatives lists.
- Hidden commercial influence over scoring.
- Vendor payments to suppress, soften, or improve findings.
Recommendations must be based on documented methodology, including:
- Evidence confidence.
- Jurisdiction signal.
- Data sensitivity signal.
- Operational criticality.
- Migration effort.
- Alternative maturity.
- Feature fit.
- Known gaps.
- Operational burden.
- Manual review needs.
Funding may happen through acceptable channels such as donations, grants, GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective, or transparent infrastructure sponsorships.
Funding must not influence:
- Vendor inclusion.
- Vendor scoring.
- Alternatives ranking.
- Recommendation wording.
- Finding suppression.
- Verification status.
Contributors and maintainers should disclose material conflicts of interest when working on vendor data, alternatives, scoring, or methodology.
scanEUr is intended to help users make high-trust dependency decisions. Any commercial influence over recommendations would weaken the project’s core purpose.