straywild/docs/ATTRIBUTION.md

Attribution, licensing, and asset provenance

This is the authoritative project record for ownership, credits, license boundaries, third-party notices, asset provenance, and redistribution checks. A Git commit proves when bytes entered the repository; it does not by itself prove authorship or licensing.

Ownership and credits

NETfishing is jointly owned, developed, and published by its creators, publicly credited as Voyager and Endeavour and operating collectively as the independent team Woofmeow.

• Voyager: co-owner, developer, project director, creator of the game's current provisional fish artwork and original 3D work except where another creator is credited, and composer of the original title track audio/music/title/as_in_four_wolves.ogg, dusk/world track audio/music/world/craft.mp3, and the synthesized robot animalese tones.
• Endeavour: co-owner, developer, and 2D artist. Her incorporated work includes character pattern/channel-map art, environment and UI art, and item art. Planned work is not described as incorporated until its files enter the project.
• chillnfill: contributor of original 3D models for the character bodies and arms, ears and tails, and multiple world props and decorative assets, including trees and bridges. The contributor requested to be credited as chillnfill.
• adamantris: contributor of the original hand-net model and texture artwork; the contributor is credited as adamantris.

Voyager is also the original catalog porter credit in PortMaster metadata. Third-party creators are credited with their individual records below. Those credits do not imply endorsement of NETfishing, Woofmeow, or its owners.

License map

Do not describe the complete repository as covered only by the GPL.

Material	Governing terms
Project-owned software code, shaders, code-oriented scene/resource configuration, tests, build tooling, and server software	GPL-3.0-or-later; source-root LICENSE and packaged GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
Project-owned artwork, textures, models, animation, music, audio, narrative content, characters, and other creative assets	Source-root or packaged ASSET-LICENSE.md
NETfishing and Woofmeow names, logos, icons, and official identity	Source-root or packaged TRADEMARKS.md
Third-party engines, fonts, sounds, and other external material	Their original terms, recorded below and in adjacent license texts where applicable
Previously accepted or expressly invited outside contributions	Source-root CONTRIBUTOR-TERMS.md plus any separately signed agreement

Generated Godot import metadata and deterministic generated resources follow the terms of their source material or generating code. Repository location alone does not relicense third-party material.

The GPL permits study, modification, redistribution, and forks of covered code. It does not grant rights to NETfishing creative assets or branding. The NETfishing Asset License separately permits qualifying noncommercial add-on Mods for official NETfishing software and narrowly scoped Contribution Forks used to prepare changes for possible upstream inclusion. It does not permit those assets to accompany independent code forks, clones, standalone games, unrelated products, or general-purpose asset packs. A GPL fork that is not a qualifying Contribution Fork must replace NETfishing assets and reserved branding with independently licensed material and a distinct identity.

Project-wide code, asset, branding, or contributor-license changes require written approval from both NETfishing owners under their private joint ownership agreement.

Godot Engine notice

NETfishing uses Godot Engine under the MIT License:

Copyright (c) 2014-present Godot Engine contributors. Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Godot licensing and bundled third-party-component notices are available at https://godotengine.org/license/ and https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/COPYRIGHT.txt. Godot uses FreeType for font rendering; portions are copyright The FreeType Project (https://www.freetype.org) under its applicable license.

Font notices

• Tuffy Bold — Thatcher Ulrich, Karoly Barta, and Michael Evans; dedicated to the public domain. Runtime file: ui/fonts/Tuffy_Bold.otf; original notice: ui/fonts/Tuffy-LICENSE.txt.
• Seattle Avenue — JLH Fonts; dedicated to the public domain by the creator. Runtime file: ui/fonts/seattle_avenue.otf; source, hash, and original notice: ui/fonts/Seattle-Avenue-LICENSE.txt.

Public-domain fonts are not governed by the NETfishing Asset License.

Intake policy

For every new external or supplied asset, retain a durable intake record with:

• creator or supplying party;
• original source location or delivery channel;
• source filename and, when useful, its initial repository destination;
• source and destination SHA-256 when copied without modification;
• license or explicit permission;
• any permitted transformations;
• the importing commit or release.

The intake record may live in the accepted pull request, issue, email, or the owners' private project records. This public document should contain the credits and license notices needed by recipients; it should not duplicate a changing file inventory that can be derived from the repository itself.

NETfishing does not accept unsolicited contributions. For work expressly invited by both Owners, maintainers must obtain affirmative agreement to the source-root CONTRIBUTOR-TERMS.md and retain the written invitation and agreement in a durable Project record.

Runtime resources must use res:// paths. Workstation Sync folders are intake locations only and must never appear in scenes or resources.

Project-created artwork and music

The current in-game fish images are provisional artwork by Voyager. Endeavour is creating replacement fish artwork, but work that has not been incorporated into this repository is not presented here as part of the game or attributed as a shipped asset.

Endeavour's incorporated 2D contributions include the inventory notepad, environment and UI artwork, item artwork, and character customization pattern and channel-map artwork. Voyager's incorporated original work includes 3D assets, the provisional fish artwork, the title and dusk music identified above, and the robot animalese tones. Specific contributor exceptions are recorded below and in the in-game credits.

These credits intentionally describe work by creator and contribution family instead of maintaining a second file-by-file asset catalog. Runtime resources and Git history identify the files present in a particular revision. A path, directory name, commit author, or supplying party is not by itself evidence of authorship.

Third-party and contributor runtime material

The following paths identify distributed material whose external license or individual contributor credit must remain easy to find. They were checked against the repository when this record was revised.

Material	Runtime location	Credit or terms
Tuffy font	ui/fonts/Tuffy_Bold.otf	Public-domain dedication in ui/fonts/Tuffy-LICENSE.txt.
Seattle Avenue font	ui/fonts/seattle_avenue.otf	Public-domain font by JLH Fonts; notice in ui/fonts/Seattle-Avenue-LICENSE.txt.
Fishing fight loop	audio/sfx/fishing/fighting.wav	Edited from “Spinning reel.wav” by Freesound user tosha73, sound 509902, CC0.
Manual-reeling loop	audio/sfx/fishing/reeling.wav	Edited from the same CC0 “Spinning reel.wav” source.
Saltwater wave ambience	audio/ambience/waves.wav	“Gentle Ocean Waves Loop” by Freesound user kkenny101, sound 852826, CC0.
Bobber water impact	audio/sfx/fishing/bobber.wav	“Quick Water Droplet” by Freesound user qubodup, sound 792931, CC0.
Rain ambience	audio/ambience/rain_loop_ontario.ogg	Converted from “Rain Loop Ontario” by Freesound user Ayton, sound 212799, CC BY 3.0.
Character bark call	sound/dialogue/calls/bark.wav	Edited from Dog_Bark.wav by Freesound user ivolipa, sound 328729, CC0.
Character meow call	sound/dialogue/calls/meow.wav	Edited from Cat meow.m4a by Freesound user Christyboy100, sound 495694, Attribution 3.0.

Creative Commons Zero information: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 legal text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode.

chillnfill 3D model contribution record

• Requested credit: chillnfill.
• Original contribution families: character bodies and arms; character ears and tails; and multiple world props and decorative assets, including trees and bridges.
• Repository mapping: these contributions may be incorporated into combined character or environment resources rather than retained as one file per originally supplied model. Git history is the revision-specific file map.
• Permission record: because these historical contributions predate the current CONTRIBUTOR-TERMS.md, retain the original permission record or a later written confirmation covering Project use, modification, distribution, commercial release, and applicable sublicensing.

adamantris hand-net contribution record

• Requested credit: adamantris.
• Original contribution: hand-net model and texture artwork.
• The maintained repository source and runtime export contain later Project adaptations. Git history, rather than a duplicated current-file hash here, identifies their bytes at any given revision.
• Repository adaptation: reshaping and the generic net_root, net_rim, net_mid, and net_tip deformation rig were prepared by Voyager for reuse across gathering activities.
• Permission record: retain the original submission correspondence or a written confirmation accepting CONTRIBUTOR-TERMS.md with the project records.

Endeavour 2D contribution record

Endeavour created the incorporated character customization patterns and channel maps as well as additional UI, environment, and item artwork. The current provisional fish artwork is not part of this credit. New or replacement art is added to this record only after it is accepted into the repository.

The exact current filenames and bytes are intentionally not copied into this document. The character appearance resources and Git history are the revision-specific inventory.

Fishing fight loop source record

• Source page: https://freesound.org/s/509902/
• Creator: tosha73
• Source title: Spinning reel.wav
• License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
• Downloaded source filename: 509902__tosha73__spinning-reel.wav
• Downloaded source SHA-256: 9741afdb1ec9c73f5e039f0e5ac174998cb0a1f737b626531e63919d4d232fad
• Audacity working project: fighting.aup3
• Audacity project SHA-256: 9928f077ecf48d01416f8d05700707e1b07d0f731846db80e27116f5b82dbbf5
• Runtime edit source/destination SHA-256: b6f3f2f94bfaf9254ac04dd96b1fd28c15e1011a1db44bb3e70eeaa95de3c212
• Runtime format: 48 kHz, 16-bit, stereo PCM WAV; 2.593479 seconds; configured as a forward loop by the fishing presentation.
• Manual-reeling Audacity project: reeling.aup3
• Manual-reeling Audacity project SHA-256: 20ad52f6bdd16ae6561f06f8355fe309e95023e815053fd5dfbd5a5ce3c1f9f9
• Manual-reeling runtime source/destination SHA-256: e403d5b7c8af1da4b28599cc0f51de3eda70d9e9296db27852fe7dc95617a29d
• Manual-reeling runtime format: 48 kHz, 16-bit, stereo PCM WAV; 2.388083 seconds; configured as a forward loop.
• The downloaded source and Audacity projects remain in the project owner's source-work archive; only the finished runtime edits ship in the game.

Saltwater wave ambience source record

• Source page: https://freesound.org/s/852826/
• Creator: kkenny101
• Source title: Gentle Ocean Waves Loop
• License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
• Downloaded source filename: 852826__kkenny101__gentle-ocean-waves-loop.wav
• Downloaded source and runtime source/destination SHA-256: f93e9890583f072ac52cf197b8b5942397d3d5e889fbdb9112a0776142f50229
• Runtime format: 48 kHz, 24-bit, mono PCM WAV; 21.769917 seconds; configured as a forward loop.
• The downloaded source remains in the project owner's source-work archive; only the finished runtime loop ships in the game.

Bobber water-impact source record

• Source page: https://freesound.org/s/792931/
• Creator: qubodup
• Source title: Quick Water Droplet
• License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
• Downloaded source filename: 792931__qubodup__quick-water-droplet.wav
• Downloaded source and runtime source/destination SHA-256: aef0d16384efed4a7b071c4d80c21597617f882f4e0c1d5295ac194d315eafb7
• Runtime format: 48 kHz, 16-bit, mono PCM WAV; 0.197146 seconds; one-shot.
• The downloaded source remains in the project owner's source-work archive; only the finished runtime sound ships in the game.

Character-call source records

Bark

• Source page: https://freesound.org/s/328729/
• Creator: ivolipa
• Source title: Dog_Bark.wav
• License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
• Downloaded source filename: 328729__ivolipa__dog_bark.wav
• Downloaded source SHA-256: c3d542dee7bfcc1901428e0c1408c0bd522d778d8e5e1dbca156cab008f3d712
• Runtime edit source/destination SHA-256: 5ac2f32f33724a2fc232d725c5c37d4cfe3e93b3c1f19aa4177d2c8e3009ec78
• Runtime format: 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo PCM WAV; 0.446780 seconds; one-shot.

Meow

• Source page: https://freesound.org/s/495694/
• Creator: Christyboy100
• Source title: Cat meow.m4a
• License: Attribution 3.0
• Downloaded source filename: 495694__christyboy100__cat-meow.m4a
• Downloaded source SHA-256: afa3f6ef7afa2f7fee1e634d5505d2101cbba4421f8d8ff9adf562939c7a18f8
• Converted working WAV SHA-256: a505e6e230e7d9d76b65c46270d97a35a1acc510b43aa5e7343d7b04f424cade
• Runtime edit source/destination SHA-256: cce22ce1fbbc9325126a153aedc4526fde1aacf78780574fb432197dd44eb6b3
• Runtime format: 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo PCM WAV; 0.605420 seconds; one-shot.
• The downloaded sources and working edits remain in the project owner's source-work archive; only the finished runtime sounds ship in the game.

Rain ambience source record

• Source page: https://freesound.org/s/212799/
• Creator: Ayton
• Source title: Rain Loop Ontario
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
• Downloaded source filename: 212799__ayton__rain-loop-ontario.aiff
• Downloaded source SHA-256: b491fc036b78a274d9ac7f6acbd014af1b5d24f5cba9bd7e3fdc05c5432ee66f
• Runtime edit SHA-256: b1979609b20fe34ed6f8902f3de65ae787a09abd71429e8aab850e87b74a4fa2
• Changes: converted from AIFF to Ogg Vorbis and configured as looping weather ambience.

Generated resources

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