I don't understand that either. The original repo was owned by the Finantial-Times account [0]. For sure that account has not been sold.

I would love to hear how the deal was made to include the repository transfer. It is really surprising.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230524161733/https://github.co...

sadly everyone has a price, its pretty much tech real estate

many js devs have used that on their resumes/portfolio - "I own a 10-line library downloaded over 1 billion times!"

^^ pretty easy target to poach github accounts for mass malware spreading.