I wonder if anyone in the pull request thread read the README (which was committed a month or so ago, well prior to the pull request) Hi, I'm starting this fork of the Laravel framework to fit my needs. While it was wrong to modify the license file, and we should always observe license fully, this isn't the blatant unattributed theft it's presented as.
I was wondering that too! He has blatantly shown that he has forked Laravel in the README. I kinda feel sorry for the guy, he just doesn't realise you aren't allowed to relicense in the way he did.