>If the original author has no use for the project anymore and someone offers to take it over from them, why should the author be expected to refuse? Isn't addi

>If the original author has no use for the project anymore and someone offers to take it over from them, why should the author be expected to refuse? Isn't adding another potentially unknown maintainer generally better for the community than a project dying? Depends on the project, I guess. Open source can always be reanimated.