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If you're talking about Dolphin, read the article again. Nobody refused, but a few people couldn't be contacted - unlike Linux, Dolphin has never required real names from contributors, so this mostly consisted of a few people who contributed under an alias a few years ago before utterly vanishing from the Internet.

EDIT: disregard; didn't see the graph, and wasn't previously aware of the one person who refused. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9600204 for the correct answer.

read the article again. Nobody refused, but a few people couldn't be contacted

No. Ten were uncontactable, and one refused.

"Refused and Code Rewritten - 1/202"

"Unable to Contact - 10/202"

From the descriptions of the red and black slices of the pie chart - https://dolphin-emu.org/m/user/blog/relicensing/relicensepie...

I read it. And it's still confusing because of this graph (from the article):

https://dolphin-emu.org/m/user/blog/relicensing/relicensepie...

Note: "0.5% Refused. Code Rewritten"

If you mouse over that graphic in the article it says 1 person refused. However, the article otherwise completely ignores that 1 person... (unless I missed it, both times ;) )

they Probably do not want to générale (further ?) Drama by publicly pointing fingers.

Hm? The graph on the page shows 4.5% of contacts being marked as "Unable to contact", while it shows a very small 0.5% as "Refused, Code Rewritten". Or is this graph wrong?

Looking at the graph mouseover, I think 10 contributors refused to relicense. Their contributions were removed from the codebase.

Incorrect. One contributor refused while 10 we were unable to contact.

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