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# FishingBuddy third-party notices
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Audit date: 2026-08-31
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This file records known upstream sources, historical credits, optional
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dependencies, asset provenance, and current licensing signals for the Dusk-92
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FishingBuddy fork.
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Existing source comments, `readme.txt`, `changes.txt`, Git history, and
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upstream repository metadata remain part of the provenance trail.
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## Historical Fishing Buddy
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The addon metadata identifies:
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- Title: Fishing Buddy
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- Version: 0.8.8e
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- Author/contact identity: Sutorix
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The historical `readme.txt` describes Fishing Buddy as combining ideas and
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functionality from multiple earlier fishing-related addons and credits:
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- TackleBox
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- Impp's Fishing Info / Fishing DB
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- QuickWeaponSwap
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- GuildMap
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- many other community addons
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The historical source also contains more specific attribution. For example,
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`FishingExtravaganza.lua` states that its map support was "liberally borrowed
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from GuildMap, by Bru on Blackhand".
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These historical credits are preserved as provenance evidence. This repository
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does not erase them or convert them into claims of original authorship.
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## Current official upstream licensing signal
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The current official Fishing Buddy projects maintained by Sutorix on CurseForge
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are marked:
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- **All Rights Reserved**
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References:
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- https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/fishingbuddy
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- https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/fishing-buddy-classic
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No standalone LICENSE file was present in either known GitHub ancestor checked
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during this audit:
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- `aim2kill/FishingBuddy`
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- `refaim/FishingBuddy`
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Accordingly, this fork does **not** claim that inherited Fishing Buddy code is
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MIT, GPL, public domain, or otherwise freely relicensed.
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The repository root `LICENSE` is intentionally a mixed-origin rights notice,
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not a permissive license for inherited code.
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## GitHub fork chain
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GitHub repository metadata confirms this ancestry:
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1. `aim2kill/FishingBuddy`
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- https://github.com/aim2kill/FishingBuddy
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2. `refaim/FishingBuddy`
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- https://github.com/refaim/FishingBuddy
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3. `Dusk-92/FishingBuddy`
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- https://github.com/Dusk-92/FishingBuddy
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The immediate upstream commit used as the baseline for this fork was:
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- `4671cbd714265c6c19d81558dc33d0ba339fa43f`
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- "Merge ilithyia-addons fork (v0.8.8e)"
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## Dusk-92 changes
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Comparing the immediate upstream baseline above with the pre-audit Dusk-92 head
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`f8daade4cf6b70f4c65587c7b1636f658ccdbc06` shows changes only to:
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- `FishingBuddy.lua`
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- `README.md`
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The runtime changes documented in Git history add OctoWoW-oriented fishing pole
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and lure entries, including the Driftwood Fishing Pole and survival-profession
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items.
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The README was rewritten to explain the addon and the OctoWoW-maintained fork.
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All other inherited runtime files and assets were unchanged relative to the
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immediate upstream baseline at the start of this documentation pass.
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## Optional external addon integrations
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`FishingBuddy.toc` lists optional compatibility with external addons such as:
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- OutfitDisplayFrame
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- Outfitter
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- myAddOns
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- FuBar
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- Titan
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- InfoBar
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- Gatherer
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- ButtonHole
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These projects are not made part of FishingBuddy merely because compatibility
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code or optional dependency declarations exist.
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Compatibility does not imply affiliation, endorsement, or a common license.
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## Historical third-party-derived/reference material
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Some source modules contain historical references to other addon projects.
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In particular:
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- `FishingExtravaganza.lua` credits map support borrowed from GuildMap by Bru
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on Blackhand.
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- The historical README credits TackleBox, Impp's Fishing DB,
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QuickWeaponSwap, and GuildMap.
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- The changelog records integration work involving Gatherer, Outfitter, Titan,
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InfoBar, Cosmos-team discoveries, and other addon ecosystems.
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This audit did not independently establish a complete license chain for every
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historical referenced or adapted component.
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Those references are therefore preserved rather than guessed or silently
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relicensed.
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## Visual assets
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The complete `Icons/` directory in this fork is byte-identical at Git tree
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level to the immediate upstream `refaim/FishingBuddy` directory.
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See `Docs/ASSET_PROVENANCE.md`.
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## Project identity and trademarks
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Canonical maintained fork:
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- https://github.com/Dusk-92/FishingBuddy
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World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, and associated names,
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marks, artwork, and game assets remain the property of their respective rights
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holders.
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See `PROJECT_IDENTITY.md`.
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## Preservation rule
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Do not remove historical source comments, author/contact metadata, upstream
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links, changelog attribution, or third-party credits merely because code is
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later modified.
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When replacing or substantially rewriting inherited material, update the
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provenance record rather than erasing the historical chain.
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