[Arkshine]

No offense, I've no idea what you're saying. I don't have time to argue for the sake of arguing really.
If you choose #2, then I will ask you to make major changes. When I said basing off the original, this means you appropriate Brad's code to make something new. I don't want to see plugin where 90% of the code is still the same as original. It's either you take over the original one and deal it with responsibility, or you create something _different_ based off the original one, in the meaning you got a base and you wrap around that your own ideas/features/way of doing things/etc. This should not be a pseudo-clone with minor changes (at least not in the released section it's fine in the original plugin thread though).