There is a section in one website's copyright notice that I don't understand... "...If you operate a Web site and wish to link to website.com, you may link only to the home page, www.website.com, and not to any other page or subdomain of website.com..." Is there a method to this, or is it just the site operators preference? If this site sells, say auto parts, and have a section about tires, and I operate a stie only about tires, wouldnt it be better to link from my tires site to their tires sub-page(s) rather than link to their main, general page?
A lot of sites do not allow interior linking. Many reasons for that, but the biggest is to make sure that all visitors come to the main page first. Same reasoning for not allowing search engines to index interior pages.
If someone required me to link to their homepage only, I think I would just link to a tinyurl redirect to their homepage. No pagerank for them, but users do get to see their main page. Seems fair to me.