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Whether you copied the code directly (which is analogous to taking a book and doing a search/replace on the character names, then selling it as your book)...
Or whether you just copied the "api's"/language syntax while completely writing your own code that makes it work (which is analogous to writing a book using the characters and universe set up in someone else's work...ala Star Trek) - it's still wrong/theft/appropriation of someone else's hard work devaluing their property and enhancing your own.
Now I said "wrong" because "illegal" is a lot more complicated. Then again, I subscribe to the notion of personal property and intellectual property and do not think society would be best served without those concepts.
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