[gkya]

When you get your project into GNU, you practically transfer the ownership and become a maintainer only. Maintainers come and maintainers go, GNU tries to ensure that projects live on when staff changes. GNU projects thus belong to the community and their fate should not be left to the whims of the individuals.

In this case though it's nice that the project is detached given it's not all that important and does not worth the burden.