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