license for config files

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi PJ,

I actually think those config files doesn’t come from ISC, but from a Debian packaging. You should check the place where you actually took the files from. Always! It does clearly state the copyright holders and the licenses for those files.

As a side note, the contents of these files are not novel enough to be covered by Berne conventions, but IANAL, and even if I were, asking three lawyers will give you five different answers, so it’s better to err on the safe side and use on the licenses listed in the Debian packaging.

Ondrej 
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> On 27. 11. 2023, at 23:23, PJ Fanning via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm a developer on the Apache Pekko project, an open source fork of Akka.
> 
> One of our mentors has queried if we have a licensing issue for the files in this directory.
> 
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/tree/main/actor-tests/src/test/bind/etc
> 
> The configs there are Bind9 configs used in our tests.
> 
> Does the Mozilla Public License have to be applied to our config files?
> 
> https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/LICENSE
> 
> The Mozilla Public License is regarded by the ASF as having copyleft implications.
> 
> Any advice on the licensing implications of having config files based on this repo would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> PJ
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