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https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
Calling it a supply chain is rich. Also I'm pretty sure the XZ person was signing their commits anyway.
As with all definitions, there is a gray area where people will have different boundaries on exact meanings. To you - a supplier relationship needs an explicit payment, which is a fair definition.
However, the more widely used definition that most people, including me, refer to, is not necessarily focused on the supplier, but on the supply - what we use in our toolchains is a supply - regardless of how it was obtained.
When there is an issue in a trusted supply, even if it was not a commercial relationship (a prerequisite by your definition), it is a supply-chain attack by the more widely used definition.
Brodie is that you?
Anyhow I would argue that it is indeed a supply chain but you still need to be respectful of the volunteers. The article seems to mostly talking about proprietary software anyway.
His video is where I got that from. Well as the article points out it's not like a traditional supply chain where there is an agreement or guarantees.