> If I write some code and decide to upload it to NPM for others to use under a FOSS license, that's my decision. If I decide to stop hosting my code on NPM, th

> If I write some code and decide to upload it to NPM for others to use under a FOSS license, that's my decision. If I decide to stop hosting my code on NPM, that's my decision too. You are free to stop publishing new versions on NPM, but NPM is not obligated to stop distributing the package (as allowed by the FOSS license you previously granted) just because you decide you want to stop hosting your code there. Once you've published the code under a FOSS license you no longer have control over its distribution. Obviously NPM is also not obligated to continue hosting the package, but if they take it down at the author's request when they didn't need to and the result is broken infrastructure, they are rightly going to get most of the blame for that breakage. The author may have made the request but in the end it was NPM's decision to take it down.