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Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. (reddthat.com)
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[–] cole@lemdro.id 27 points 2 days ago

right but unless you sign a contributor licensing agreement when you contribute then the copyright owner can't relicense code you contributed.

so if you contribute to a GPL codebase it's pretty legally perilous to try to unilaterally relicense code that isn't "yours".

this is pretty nebulous territory anyways, but I'd argue it's pretty unethical to relicense to a more restrictive license essentially "taking" the GPL code from contributors