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Licence doesn't apply to the creator.
He already owns the copyright, he doesn't need a licence, he doesn't need to adhere to the gpl
The binaries in question are various GNU and FOSS tools from elsewhere, not part of the Ventoy project itself. So no, the Ventoy author does not own the copyright of the tools in question.
Even then, he's still allowed to provide binary blobs. He doesn't have to provide it as source code. If that was the case, we'd all have to build from source and package managers like apt, dnf and flatpak wouldn't exist.
All he has to do is make the source code available, i.e. just link back to the original Github Repo.