[gcb0]

You are assuming someone who is scrambling to change function names and hide git logs will be going back to the code they stole to re-check for an update license?

a pull request would be the same as an email or blog post at this point. it is just a way to communicate. why is a PR better then what they are doing now?

[ms013]

It would be publicly visible on github, such that the community can see the dispute and the response (or lack thereof) from the other project. While it won’t necessarily fix the problem, it is more visible.