[wrycoder]

While the problem wasn’t unique, the hostile takeover of the project was. The honorable and legal course of action would be to fork.

The owner had built the distro single-handed over ten years, and GitHub and Freenode helped to eject him from his own project, over his eventual strenuous objections.

https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/

Even that link doesn’t give a balanced story. You have to track down the founder’s posts to hear his side and to understand why he had stopped contributing for awhile.