I'm missing your point here.

Tomc has account yet chose not to release it, so Ovid releases it.

When bugs reports come (say cpan testers), Ovid ignores them (hey, I just upload it), and Tomc doesn't get them (hey, I didn't upload it), and the unixisms remain.

When the author doesn't release his own work, when author doesn't at least have have "maintainer" status on cpan, expect the package to not work, well :)