Well...
1) It's not a copy, all code is written from scratch and works crossplatform unlike Delphi/Kylix
2) The project is not commercial, it's OpenSource, Lazarus is not a company that tries to make money with Borland's ideas
3) If it would be shameless then you wouldn't have OpenOffice, you wouldn't have similar interfaces, etc.
Lazarus has an interface similar to Delphi's (Comps, OI, PE, SE) and similar classes but all code has been rewritten.