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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by crooked-v on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:32AM (#25032203)
Given that NPM hasn't done so before, I find it very unlikely they would do so now.

More likely, the fork would become "faker2" if they don't want to come up with a new name.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by bdcravens on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:42AM (#25032265)
I'm not sure they haven't. Their dispute process even outlines this as a use case: "This process is an excellent way to: Adopt an "abandoned" package"

https://www.npmjs.com/policies/disputes

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by mariusmarais on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:00AM (#25032789)
According to that document, they only take action after four weeks of no response from the original owner.

It doesn't say so explicitly, but to me it seems that a cordial "No" from the original author will probably be the end of it.

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