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Could you write an innocent looking contribution to the project, get listed in the AUTHORS file, then come back a month later and declare that the project should be shut down, because its license is clearly violated, because there is a missing exception for Orbiter, so it was invalid in the first place?
But you have contributed knowing that the code will be linked to Orbiter, so you have de facto accepted a license exception even if one was not explicitly specified (Volenti non fit iniuria).
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Orbiter addons with GPL license are arguably violating the license itself, therefore distributors are in danger of receiving a cease and desist letter from the FSF if it gets reported and if they even care.
No, unless the add-on in question contains code copyrighted by FSF. Only copyright holder can file copyright claims.
If I write an add-on from scratch and put it under GPL, then technically I have violated my own copyright. I can then go and sue myself
The problem only arises if I took code written by X, and put that in an add-on. Then X would have ground to sue me, however I am not entirely sure that they would prevail in court, for several reasons.