Two counter arguments: The package registry entry isn't the package. At no time is the original creator deprived of their rights to their package. Any fork wil

Two counter arguments: The package registry entry isn't the package. At no time is the original creator deprived of their rights to their package. Any fork will have to respect whatever license the original creator assigned. Open source licenses are allow forking by design for a reason. Also, this whole thing needs to rest on a transparent process that doesn't make takeovers easy. There need to be clear criteria when takeovers can even be initiated, like extended inactivity (think 6 months or more) or unresponsive maintainers when serious issues are encountered. Also, there is not much harm in a mechanism for reclamation by the original package owner.