As a side note -- can anyone here shed light as to what the GPL says with regard to developing code based on the GPL within your organization? I mean, I would want my employees to NOT necessarily go and publish intermediate stages to the world or share them with my competitors. But then again, I am restricting my employees' freedom to do so, through a non-compete contract or something else. Is this compatible with the GPL? I guess this hinges on whether the employee installing a copy of the code in their development environment counts as "distribution". Does it?
I also wonder what the FSF's response would be if such "within one's organization" use ever would become the predominant way some commercial entity used some GPL software package. I think they would classify that as a hole that needs fixing.
Edit: of course, I may be overlooking that such cases already exist, or that the FSF discussed this (I did browse the GPL FAQ to check the latter, but did not spell it out)