Am I somehow misinterpreting that, or was that really a blatant attempt to sell the repos and pypi ownership of some extremely popular Python libraries?
Similar issues have already happened with people buying or otherwise taking over popular NPM packages.
There is absolutely an exchange of value here, no reason to assume that a change in maintainership means cash for malware.
If you are the sole person that contributed code, that's fine, but what about codebases that had lots of code contributed by other people?
Would not taking money somehow obviate the issue?
> I am considering this an unlikely and rare situation. Only serious offers will be considered, and money won't influence maintainer-ship decisions.