Couldn't be more clear violation from a legal standpoint.

Though its quite sad that the community had more creativity (and engineering talent) to develop classic(+) wow.

Everything Blizzard now touches is bland, lacks soul, or is straight up bad.

The people who built Blizzard are no longer at Blizzard. Blizzard is a kin to Google now. Looks similar from the outside, completely different from the inside.