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Update "Usage Policy" regarding crate deletions (#10392)
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For security reasons, the crates.io team will not transfer ownership of existing crates without the explicit
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approval of the current owner.</p>
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<p>Crate deletion by their owners is not possible to keep the registry as immutable as possible. If you want to flag
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your crate as open for transferring ownership to others, you can publish a new version with a message in the README or
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description communicating to the crates.io support team that you consent to transfer the crate to the first person who
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asks for it:</p>
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I consent to the transfer of this crate to the first person who asks
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</blockquote>
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Keep in mind that the new owner might develop your crate in a way you never intended it, or might completely
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repurpose your crate. Transferring the crate to a malicious user could have a significant impact for any
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existing users of your crate.</p>
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<p>If you are the author of a crate that another person wants to take over: keep in mind that the new owner might
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develop your crate in a way you never intended it, or might completely repurpose your crate. Transferring a crate
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to a malicious user could have a significant impact for any existing users of your crate.</p>
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<p>Crate owners can delete their crates under certain conditions: the crate has been published for less than 72 hours, or
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the crate only has a single owner, the crate has been downloaded less than 500 times for each month it has been
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published, and the crate is not depended upon by any other crate on crates.io. If these conditions are not met, the
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crate will not be deleted. In exceptional cases crate owners may contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">the crates.io
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team</a> to request deletion of a crate that does not meet these conditions.</p>
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<p>The crates.io team may delete crates from the registry that do not comply with the policies on this document. In
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larger cases of squatting attacks this may happen without prior notification to the author, but in most cases the team

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