It's Zed Shaw. That pretty much rules out it being a friendly request ;) With that said, such situations are exactly the sort that mildly unfriendly requests

It's Zed Shaw. That pretty much rules out it being a friendly request ;) With that said, such situations are exactly the sort that mildly unfriendly requests are appropriate for. I did the same thing when someone took my BSD licensed code, replaced my name in the copyright notice with his own, and put it up on github. Fundamentally, you're not making a request, you're giving a command.