FishingBuddy/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md

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.