I can’t imagine software engineers caring about this at all. The only people that care about UI theft are C suite IP clutchers. SWEs generally love being able to use each other’s work. Copying UI by eye has been SOP since the dawn of computing.

> Copying UI by eye has been SOP since the dawn of computing.

Case in point, the very GUI operating systems we use today are arguably a "stolen" product from xerox parc.