This is addressed in the link, but basically, the extant codebase is extremely crufty, to the point that a rewrite would be the suggested course forward (and, i

This is addressed in the link, but basically, the extant codebase is extremely crufty, to the point that a rewrite would be the suggested course forward (and, indeed, the other formerly-active major contributor started his own clean codebase to implement similar functionality). So one of the two active contributors left to start his own rewrite of the project, and this post is the other active contributor saying he definitely doesn't have enough time to keep doing this on his own. If there's no association with the old project's name or references from it to the new project, then whatever came from it would probably not use the name "FindBugs", and either way, the original project ends up dead.