Add code and asset provenance records

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+# TurtleMail code provenance
+
+Audit date: 2026-08-31
+
+## Known fork chain
+
+1. `shirsig/Mail`
+   - https://github.com/shirsig/Mail
+   - original known Vanilla mail addon source
+2. `sica42/TurtleMail`
+   - https://github.com/sica42/TurtleMail
+   - immediate upstream fork with TurtleMail features and later maintenance
+3. `Dusk-92/TurtleMail`
+   - https://github.com/Dusk-92/TurtleMail
+   - current maintained compatibility fork
+
+GitHub repository metadata confirms that `sica42/TurtleMail` is a fork of
+`shirsig/Mail`, and `Dusk-92/TurtleMail` is a fork of
+`sica42/TurtleMail`.
+
+## Immediate-upstream identity
+
+The following current files are byte-identical at Git blob level to
+`sica42/TurtleMail`:
+
+| File | Git blob SHA-1 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `Calendar.lua` | `1a5e918bd4b6bf74f1c4a3372a60e944c5e1dcb8` |
+| `TurtleMail.lua` | `009463c946c47f9fbf44c666005c5b95468cba97` |
+| `TurtleMail.xml` | `e0ccb3ca6db13f999468a0eef9a91c564c8adae8` |
+| `localization.lua` | `2ff7c48bd9c8ee555c7e2e0111bedce86e3e01bc` |
+| `localization.de.lua` | `40227ed5306eafd43b97189967459a65487b32a9` |
+| `localization.es.lua` | `3f181ba3dc36d8539e8eb6adb91b68f30ec37b75` |
+| `localization.fr.lua` | `a72708fd39c212f4478779fa9e73200347495d51` |
+| `localization.ru.lua` | `732e204b50c88eb410f48a835da3f5874d48c312` |
+
+The three visual assets are documented separately in
+`Docs/ASSET_PROVENANCE.md`.
+
+## Dusk-92-specific maintenance
+
+The current fork adds an isolated compatibility layer in
+`TurtleMailFix.lua` and updates addon metadata/documentation around the
+1.4.6 maintenance release.
+
+The current `TurtleMail.toc` differs from the immediate upstream version and
+includes the compatibility layer.
+
+`AUDIT.md` documents the technical compatibility pass.
+
+## Calendar provenance
+
+`Calendar.lua` is unchanged from the immediate upstream.
+
+Relevant upstream history:
+
+- commit `91142ac27c8fabd651b8e8db6c3d30baa31a604e`
+  ("New logging feature", 2025-03-23)
+- commit `2a8cc7204c93dd83b54ea95009fbc6c6075d7573`
+  ("Fix bug in calendar dropdown", 2025-04-02)
+
+This establishes the immediate development history without asserting a license
+that is not present in the upstream repository.
+
+## Licensing boundary
+
+Neither `shirsig/Mail` nor `sica42/TurtleMail` exposed an explicit
+project-wide LICENSE file during this audit.
+
+A public GitHub repository or fork relationship is not, by itself, proof of a
+permissive license.
+
+For that reason, the current fork records provenance rather than assigning an
+invented license to inherited code.