Adapting his work in my opinion is not copy and pasting his work and adding a line or two in the middle. Making a simple enough script that runs the whole thing from start to finish for example would be a nice adaptation that I am sure he and many other people would appreciate.
Maybe the choice of your wording and the structure of your post is a bit unfortunate. If so, consider editing it.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/%7Esomlo/OSXKVM/
edit: sorry, if i came across harsh, in the tiny little world in my head the one thing engineers care about/enjoy(but don't expect) after an accomplishment is praise and credit.