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+# Fishing Buddy upstream rights status
+
+Audit date: 2026-08-31
+
+## Official project
+
+The official Fishing Buddy projects currently 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
+
+## Historical GitHub fork network
+
+Known GitHub ancestry for this repository:
+
+- https://github.com/aim2kill/FishingBuddy
+- https://github.com/refaim/FishingBuddy
+- https://github.com/Dusk-92/FishingBuddy
+
+Neither of the two upstream GitHub repositories checked during this audit
+contains a standalone project-wide LICENSE file.
+
+A public source repository and a GitHub fork relationship do not, by
+themselves, create permission to redistribute or relicense copyrighted code.
+
+## Scope
+
+This record is intentionally conservative.
+
+It does not attempt to determine whether a particular historical release had
+additional permissions that are no longer shown on current hosting pages.
+
+If reliable historical permission from Sutorix or another applicable rights
+holder is later located, preserve that evidence here and update
+`THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`.
+
+Do not use a third-party mirror repository's own software license as proof that
+the mirrored Fishing Buddy addon itself was released under that license.