Originally Posted by Archangel_Mike
If you take the addon away from World of Warcraft, the addon does nothing. It is, nothing, but a very VERY small piece of a MUCH bigger design the addon developers had little or nothing to do with.
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By that logic, then WoW is nothing without the OS, C, Lua and other libraries it uses. The OS depends on the BIOS, which depends on the hardware (CPU micro code
), which does nothing without the electricity from the electric company.
Blizzard does not own addon code just like Microsoft and Apple do not own Blizzard's code and the BIOS manufacturers do not own the OS code. Code depending on or using other code does not imply ownership.