You are not owed a license. You are not owed neither software nor hardware. If you don't like it, re-create all the work, but don't plagiarize, and release it under whatever open source software you want.
Half the time people with new projects just forget to choose one. He could put up a completely non commercial license if he wanted. It doesn't even have a copyright notice right now, making simply overlooking that so far the most plausible explanation.
That's correct; it's far from finished - I just chucked it up on Github to show it to some interested folks and get some review on the design. Didn't expect it to actually get attention.
The plan is that once it's working to my satisfaction, I'll do a small production run and release the designs under some kind of open hardware license. I'm not particularly interested in making money off it beyond covering my costs.
Your initial statement kinda reminds me of those hobby game development projects that get stuck at choosing an engine/tooling and never build an actual game.
Favorite Dale story: I had a booth at the first Maker Faire. As things were closing down on the last night, I was waiting at the front gate for a taxi back to the hotel. Dale saw me, and with no idea of if I was a presenter or an attendee, and no idea of where I was going, offered to drive me wherever I needed to go. Just pure awesome.
Growing up, on the playground, you said, "actually what you just said is a symbol of power of the Roman consuls, so I will take that as a compliment.", didn't you?
I've got a script on a few of my sites. Initially, the redirect is off. If it passes 100 incoming hits from HN in an hour, I assume it's on the front page. Then I just do some messy scripting to re-enable the script for a few minutes every hour. One minute on, seven minutes off. That sort of thing. Basically, the goal is to redirect the maximum number of people, and you can't do that if it redirects everyone. No, I won't be sharing these scripts with anyone but mostly because they're all terrible kludges that do not deserve to see the light of day.
There is no copyright on recipes; this is why the SEO laden essays exist. You can just steal recipes, because no one owns them anyway.
Given the choice between a recipe site that has a thousand words about someone's grandmother or a recipe site that divides the ingredients by two, I'll choose the latter.
Recipes specifically are not copyrighted because no lawmaker wants to throw grandma in jail for copying the side of a box. I think they technically count as "facts" which aren't copyrightable (e.g. whisking egg whites and sugar is going to eventually get you a meringue)
A lot of "secret" family recipes usually have their origin in something like this.
Something being legal doesn't make it ethical. I'm also disgusted by this attitude of "screw you and the labor you invested to create and share this recipe."
I regularly get recipes from real people who really make original (as far as recipes can be original) or adapted recipes. No, it's not plagiarism all the way down.
