> I think you're ignoring the way the GPL defines the "source code".
> The GPL defines the "source code" as the preferred form for modifying
> the program. If the preferred form of a work for purposes of
> modifying it is live access to a BK repository, then that's the
> "source code" for GPL purposes.
You are a lawyer working in this area, and so can cite chapter and verse
where this definition was made (the GPL text is rather vague)?
Anyway, Andreas Dilger is (curiously) right AFAIU: Linus has _never_
distributed a binary to anybody AFAIK, so he is under no obligation by the
GPL do give out any form of source. Furthermore, as he is (in the editor
sense at least) copyright holder for the whole source, he isn't bound by
the GPL in any case. ;-)
IANAL, etc.
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