Please review applicants compliance with third party policy.

As most of you know, we have a Git repo policy for the Drupal.org git repo. This policy is also explained in our guidance about 3rd party libraries and content. This is even linked to in the review template, under the heading 3rd party assets/code.

Earlier today, I was browsing the application queue, and I could not help noticing several applications that did not comply with the this requirement:

• https://www.drupal.org/node/2110259
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2176689
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2270915
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2654168
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2733173

What also struck me was that most of those applications was either marked "Fixed" or "Reviewed & Tested by the Community".

Just to make make myself clear: Our 3rd party policy must be enforced in the Project Application review queue..

Having third party materials in a the project's repo is not legally possible, since we insist on licencing the entire repo under GPLv2+ to downstream recipients. This is why we require all authors to license their own content as a condition for been given git access. And we will block or delete a repo if an author puts another license there than GPLv2+ and refuse to remove it.

The developers that push 3rd party materials (such as images and protected logos) to their repo doesn't own these assets. So they have no legal right to license these assets for re-use under GPLv2+. When they do, they violate the asset's rightful owner's copyright.

And if we allow our users to do this by pretending these copyright violations doesn't exist, we also expose ourselves to copyright litigation that we are going to lose.

So we cannot allow this. Any presence of third party materials in an applicants repo should cause the application to be blocked until all materials that violate copyright have been purged.

Please be diligent when reviewing, and help us enforce the Drupal.org git repo policy.