What to do when a project has materials not offered by Bambu?

I thought I had read a MakerWorld guideline regarding external links listed on a project but I can’t find it this time around. I am curious what the rules are when it comes to making projects for items that I can’t just include a Bambu bill of material for. I am assuming that naming the hardware used in the project is fine, but what is the policy to directing people to where they can buy the hardware needed? For example giving a link to a site like Mouser or Adafruit.

I am not at a point right now where I plan on uploading anything either way, but my Dad who is into the electronics and programming side of things and I had been discussing making cases for projects he plans on making (maybe, eventually, you know how it goes) and I started to wonder what would happen if I shared a case using his project and tried to provide a link to buying the parts to complete it. Especially if it ends up something he builds a custom board for where the only place to buy it would be from him.

It isn’t like I couldn’t share stuff on other sites, but I kind of like MakeWorld and would prefer to put stuff up here if I can and not go afoul with their policies!

I am adding links to parts that have to be bought from other sources, see here ==> RAK Indoor Small Light Sensor RAK1903 or RAK12010

So far BambuLab/Makerworld seems to be ok with this approach.

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I have a number of models posted here that use parts from Adafruit and have links in the model descriptions to the necessary parts. I hope it’s ok. I never saw anything indicating otherwise but it can be a risk to click on links and that is a way to get people to click on stuff.

Curious what the official position is too.