The software itself is unethical, but as a programmer, a software engineer, should have a professional ethics, must abide by the "Code of Professional Ethics and practice standards":
Principle one: The public-- The behavior of software engineers should be consistent with the public interest.
Principle two: Clients and employers-software engineers should act in the best interests of their clients and employers in a manner consistent with the public interest.
Principle Three: Products - software engineers should ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest possible professional standards.
Principle Four: Judgment--the software engineer should carry out his professional judgment completely and independently.
Principle Five: Management--the managers and leaders of software projects should endorse and promote ethical management of software development and maintenance.
Principle VI: Occupation-in accordance with the principle of public interest, software engineers should ensure the integrity and reputation of their profession.
Principle VII: Colleagues-software engineers should be honest to help their colleagues.
Principle eight: Self---software engineers should be lifelong learning to improve their professional standards without violating the code of ethics.
Today, the convenience of the network, so that we have any problems on the Internet search solutions, but this is only for our reference, not plagiarism, stealing the results of others. Others are through little bit, hard work to study the results, we rely on what to steal other people's results as their own results, this dishonest behavior, is a self-deception behavior. We should have our own professional ethics, we can learn from, can refer to other people's results, but must not be completely the results of others as their own results.
Academic integrity and professional ethics