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Terms of use.
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  You may use The Second Step freely provided you acknowledge the following
  terms and abide by them:

    1. You do not challenge The Second Step's copyright in any way.

    2. You acknowledge that the author of The Second Step is in no way
       responsible for damage done to your system due to The Second Step
       usage.

    3. You may not in any way try to alter the two program files included in 
       this package. 
       
    4. You are allowed to alter the table files included to suit your game. I recommend 
       using the Table Editor included in this package for this, but you may use 
       any editor you prefer. 

  Failure to honor these terms will be a severe violation of the license
  and could result in legal measures being taken.


Distributing The Second Step.
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  You can freely distribute The Second Step provided you abide by the following
  terms:

    1. You may not charge more than the price of the media on which The
       Second Step is distributed for the distribution of The Second Step.

    2. You must agree to notify the author of The Second Step, Lars Gottlieb,
       either by email at SecondStep@trc.dk or by sending a written
       letter to the following address:

                Lars Gottlieb
                c/o A.Lund
                Lindevangshusene 54 st th
                2630 Taastrup
                Denmark

    3. You must send one complimentary copy of your product for examination to
       the address given under #2 (or, if it is an electronic publication,
       to the email address given above). 

    4. You must distribute The Second Step in one of two formats. You may not, 
       without explicit permission from the author, distribute any part of The 
       Second Step in any other form. 

       a) The complete and unmodified archive found in the 'download' section of 
          the Second Step website.
       b) As a compilation of data files, in any format you like.

    5. Character files, in any and all forms, are yours. 
       You may do with them what you like ...

  Failure to honor these terms will be a severe violation of the license
  and could result in legal measures being taken.


The Postcard Quest.
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  The Second Step is free for all users, but if you want to thank me for ceating
  it, maintaining it, fixing all discovered bugs, providing support and 
  generally spending a lot of time on it, please consider rewarding my efforts 
  by sending a postcard to the following address from wherever you live:

                Lars Gottlieb
                c/o A.Lund
                Lindevangshusene 54 st th
                2630 Taastrup
                Denmark
