modules/distributions on or off d.o that may violate the license

Do the listed projects still contain code not licensed under GPL License?

About the Drupal branches hosted on a third-party site, I am not sure if they are not allowed. As Drupal is licensed under GPL License v2+, one can modify its code; the important is that the changed code is released under the same license.
The only problem could be if vBulletin is not released under GPL.

I noted that the web site hosting vBDrupal makes a reference to a license to get in order to be able to use the software; as reported from pwolanin, this is clearly a violence of a GPL License that still applies to any derivative work.
What the creators of vBDrupal has done is to make GPL software that is licensed under a different license (which, of course, is not something they can do).

Did anybody reported this case to the Drupal association?

I was referring to the vbDrupal case. As far as I know, even Drupal.org site maintainers don't hold the copyright on Drupal; then the files are not hosted on Drupal.org, and site maintainers cannot enforce any rules on third-party web sites.

If then we are talking of who is the holder of the copyright on Drupal code, as reported by Dries on Is Drupal copyrighted?:

Copyright is distributed among the various Drupal contributors. This is true for other FOSS projects like the Linux kernel. If you want to investigate the implications of a distributed copyright model, you might be able to find more information in Linux-land.

subscribing to make sure someone is following up on this (other wise I will :-)

I am adding a tag, so Crell can notice this report.

As already reported in other issues, for files hosted outside drupal.org only Drupal Association can take any action. It is not responsibility of Drupal.org webmasters to do anything about files that are not hosted in Drupal.org CVS.

For the modules hosted on Drupal.org, it's not clear to me what the violation of GPL License would be. Considering Drupal vB, in example, the module doesn't include any third-party files; this is also true for the other projects reported in this issue.

There are several legal questions here: Does the site have the right to use the Drupal trademark? Does their license for the code break the GPL?

Only Dries/DA can enforce the trademark question. But anyone who is a copyright holder in the code that is being distributed improperly can take action. Strategically speaking, it would likely be better to coordinate efforts.

so, here we are. 5 years later... nobody wants to do anything? not clear who should be taking this forward?

"may violate the GPL" is a bit unspecific.

at least vbdrupal.org is dead.

drupaltin is on D5, does not include a license.txt file, but a GPL notice in the source files.

I've checked http://drupal.org/project/tngintegrate 's D7 version and can't see why it would violate the GPL.

smfforum instructs users to d'l some code that may not be GPL, but since we don't ship it...

Maybe somebody else wants to check the rest?

This is dead. Nobody moved. This licensing story needs some qualified leadership. Talked to drupalhross who has it on her agenda.

I am moving this issue as result of cleaning-up of the Drupal.org webmaster's queue components.