> I'm asking for an attribution given that the tool was copied, how is that aggressive?

Because it implies that the tool is copied. To me, they look similar, in a way that all tools like this are going to look somewhat similar.

> - fnix imports, - secretspec extends

So, they both have ways to slurp in other files so that you can kind of emulate inheritance. They call them different things, but the idea's similar: they both look similar to mise's configuration hierarchy, which predates both tools.[0]

> - secretspec profiles, - fnix profiles

They both support named profiles like "dev", "production", etc... like so many other devops tools that I'm having a hard time narrowing it down to one pre-existing example among thousands.

No, I'm still not seeing it. Fnox seems to be a copy of secretspec in the same way that Nginx is a copy of Apache, because they both do similar things and have config files that talk about domain names and ports and paths and certificates.

[0]https://mise.jdx.dev/configuration.html#configuration-hierar...