Yes I had guessed the policy is to prevent squatting. But it shouldn't apply to packages that actually have code sitting in them - anyone could have seen my pa

Yes I had guessed the policy is to prevent squatting. But it shouldn't apply to packages that actually have code sitting in them - anyone could have seen my package had a bunch of work gone into it, even if it hadn't been updated in a while. If it's a legit package, no matter how old it is, then the ownership should stick to the original author by default in perpetuity.