I have mixed feelings about this, but my gut reaction is that it's not acceptable. Mainly because inexperienced programmers tend to cobble together functional apps by leaning heavily on example code, and don't know that those examples have dangerous security issues.
Gox is a follower in the BTC market now that it takes forever to get USD out. BTC-e looks like its traders move the market and Gox just follows, especially at times of high volume.
Dogecoin already has Dogeapi.com and similar. And since DOGE is a fork of Litecoin, it should be trivial to use this code with DOGE if the authors wanted to.
