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+# FishingBuddy code provenance
+
+Audit date: 2026-08-31
+
+## Historical addon identity
+
+The current package retains the historical Fishing Buddy 0.8.8e metadata and
+documentation associated with Sutorix.
+
+The old `readme.txt` and `changes.txt` are retained as important provenance
+records and should not be replaced solely by the modern README.
+
+## GitHub ancestry
+
+GitHub metadata confirms:
+
+`aim2kill/FishingBuddy`
+→ `refaim/FishingBuddy`
+→ `Dusk-92/FishingBuddy`
+
+Immediate upstream baseline used for comparison:
+
+`4671cbd714265c6c19d81558dc33d0ba339fa43f`
+
+Pre-audit Dusk-92 head:
+
+`f8daade4cf6b70f4c65587c7b1636f658ccdbc06`
+
+The Dusk-92 fork was five commits ahead of that immediate upstream baseline.
+
+## Dusk-92-specific runtime changes
+
+The compare result shows only one runtime file changed by the Dusk-92 commits
+after the immediate upstream baseline:
+
+- `FishingBuddy.lua`
+
+Git history records the relevant changes as:
+
+- `7cda85a8642fc729454eac8ef6afe9d6c1ec02b1`
+  - "add Driftwood Fishing Pole"
+- `988fa5bf60eb5dfdb80c520d74283d8dcf8e2df7`
+  - "Add fish pole and Lure from the survival profession"
+- `ae4b2634c463d31e630610fe11c73b097d5de2ba`
+  - "Update addon name from FishingBuddy to OctoWow"
+
+The other Dusk-92 commits in that comparison update the README.
+
+## Historical third-party provenance
+
+The source contains explicit historical attribution:
+
+- `FishingExtravaganza.lua`:
+  "Map support liberally borrowed from GuildMap, by Bru on Blackhand"
+- `readme.txt` credits TackleBox, Impp's Fishing DB, QuickWeaponSwap, and
+  GuildMap.
+
+These statements are retained as the most authoritative surviving provenance
+evidence for those historical relationships.
+
+## Current official rights status
+
+The current official Fishing Buddy and Fishing Buddy (Classic) projects on
+CurseForge are marked "All Rights Reserved".
+
+Neither `aim2kill/FishingBuddy` nor `refaim/FishingBuddy` contains a
+standalone project-wide LICENSE file.
+
+For that reason, this fork does not infer a permissive license merely from the
+existence of public historical source code or a public GitHub fork network.
+
+## Maintenance rule
+
+Future changes should continue to distinguish:
+
+1. inherited Fishing Buddy code;
+2. historically attributed third-party-derived/reference material;
+3. Dusk-92-authored modifications;
+4. external optional compatibility targets.
+
+Do not replace that distinction with a blanket license claim.