Fishlore Licences

What Fishlore is built from, and the terms it is used under

Fishing rules data

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The rules in Fishlore are transcribed from these GOV.UK pages; each rule in the app names its page and the date it was checked.

Fish identification model

The species classifier that runs on the device is the Fishial.AI fish identification model (version 0.10.2), Copyright (c) 2021 Wye Foundation - Fishial.AI Project, used under the MIT License, converted to Core ML for this app. Its backbone is Meta's DINOv2 (Apache License 2.0). The model is included in the app and runs offline; no photo leaves the device.

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.

Species occurrence data

Which countries a species is recorded in comes from occurrence records published through GBIF.org under the CC0 and CC BY licences, counted by country: GBIF.org (18 September 2026) GBIF Occurrence Search, gbif.org/occurrence/search. The species list is Fishial.ai's public class list (MIT License). The app uses this to say a species is not normally found in your region; it never uses it to rule a species out.

Species common names

The name shown for a species, in each of the app’s eight languages, comes from the vernacular names of the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (GBIF Secretariat, CC BY 4.0), taking only names from the source checklists GBIF publishes under CC0 or CC BY: the Catalogue of Life, ITIS, TAXREF, the World Register of Marine Species, the UK Species Inventory, the IUCN Red List, the Belgian, Swedish, Dutch Caribbean and Brazilian national lists and the other CC0 / CC BY checklists on GBIF. GBIF.org (18 September 2026) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, doi.org/10.15468/39omei.

Photographs

The two photographs on the app's first-run pages are of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and are used under CC BY 4.0: the fish at the surface by Pavel Kacl (iNaturalist, 2023) and the fish over sand by Julien Renoult (iNaturalist, 2022), both via Wikimedia Commons. Neither is altered beyond cropping.

Software

Component	Copyright	Licence
Firebase iOS SDK (Core, Analytics, Authentication, Crashlytics, Installations, Sessions)	Google LLC	Apache License 2.0
Google App Measurement	Google LLC	Apache License 2.0
Google Utilities	Google LLC	Apache License 2.0
Google Data Transport	Google LLC	Apache License 2.0
GTM Session Fetcher	Google LLC	Apache License 2.0
Promises	Google LLC	Apache License 2.0
Interop for Google SDKs	Google LLC	Apache License 2.0
nanopb	Petteri Aimonen	zlib licence, below

Copyright (c) 2011 Petteri Aimonen <jpa at nanopb.mail.kapsi.fi>

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or
implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable
for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and
redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you
   must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use
   this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product
   documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and
   must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
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