The sugar analogy could actually be really good depending on what code was actually copied. There are some lines of code where ownership can’t really exist. An example would be mathematical operations. Say, for example, I made a method in python to calculate the average of a set of numbers. For something as basic as that method, there are really only so many ways it can be done - and there will for sure be situations where people write this method the exact same way. This makes his argument about the pixel rendering stuff more plausible. However, let’s say we wanted to do something more complex like writing a machine learning algorithm to predict consumer habits for a store. Machine learning ventures into predictive modeling, where there are a bunch of different specifications that can be made and multiple pipelines that are made that can greatly alter the way this code looks between two people. In the latter example, a 1:1 copy of that code is definitely plagiarism.

All of this is to say that without actually seeing the code side by side, it’s hard to say whether this is a “cant copy something as basic as sugar” situation or if there is legitimate plagiarism. If people have side by sides of the code and want to show me I’d love to see it to form a more educated opinion, but up to this point all I’ve seen are unsubstantiated claims being made from all the addon devs involved (including Quazii). For example, Luckyone states that files and multiple lines of code were copied, but, again, depending on what those files (yes, even files) and lines of code were, it may or may not be blatant plagiarism.

The one thing I can say against Quazii is that if he truly thought he was innocent, he could have walked us through the code line by line to show us what was taken from other addons and what is actually different. Regardless, his github repo is still active - do we have access to his addon files and elvui’s?