While true, you don't need to supply the actual copyrighted/licensed binaries across the internet.
You can just supply a shell-script to extract them from the device, and its assumed that interested parties wanting to build the code has the device themselves.
Feel free to call it a loophole, but I don't have a problem with that and definitely don't see it as something shady.
True but from what I understand the images they put out have all the bits baked in. You literally just flash the new firmware onto the device. That means they are distributing bits they don't have licence to distribute.
You can just supply a shell-script to extract them from the device, and its assumed that interested parties wanting to build the code has the device themselves.
Feel free to call it a loophole, but I don't have a problem with that and definitely don't see it as something shady.