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This is not a thought experiment. This is a real concern and possibility. The community would not be prepared.
Also, would this even be legal? When you create an npm account you give them the rights to distribute your work. If a new registry spins up, they wouldn’t have those rights. Maybe you would have to filter based on known licenses specified in package.json?
You’re allowed to distribute anything open source, so all the ones with explicit licenses you’re fine on. There’s good tooling for telling if a package has a proper license on it. A lawyer could tell you what the fair use case would be for hosting the other public data.
Last I checked there was a surprising amount of packages without explicit licenses. In fact, we had to add some logic to Yarn to infer the license field from a LICENSE file.
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