100%. All I can say to that is, can I guarantee I'll maintain my code years from now? No. Can I think of a scenario where I'll take down all of my code? Nope? My reasoning? I'm not 12 
The thing with any of these solutions, forking, cloning, anything else really, it's not going to automatically grab changes. So if the original author makes changes, your fork doesn't automatically update those.
HPM is released under the BSD license which essentially means you can't change the license to something else, and you need to maintain the copyright message. Beyond that, anyone can do as they see fit.
