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Use this software package at your own risk. The programmer or Cubic Circle
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cannot be held liable for any incurred damages, directly or indirectly due to
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the use or inability to use this software.
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You are encouraged to distribute this package freely. This package or
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any part thereof or any work derived from it, is however not to be sold
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(minor transfer costs excepted) or included in any commercially sold software
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package (if you want to do this anyway, contact me (address below), and we'll
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work something out).
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If you distribute it, you must leave the package intact; under no circumstance
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shall the copyright messages and/or banner greetings be removed, changed or
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suppressed. You are not allowed to take parts from this distribution and
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distribute these separately. If you redistribute this package in a modified
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form, make it absolutely clear which parts you changed.
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If you have some important changes that might be useful to the rest of the
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world, contact me instead.
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This software package can essentially be used free of charge. However,
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if you are running an Internet Service Provider business (or even if you're
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not, but are simply overwhelmed by this sudden feeling of generosity,
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don't fight it, let it take over :-), you are respectfully requested to donate
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a certain amount of money in order to make it possible for us to keep
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producing free software.
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What will it buy you? Free upgrades, a subscription to the bugfixes and
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announcements mailinglist, a lifetime of high-priority E-mail support,
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a firsthand look at any other fine quality software we produce (and, free
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publicity, if (only if) you express the desire to be part of any promotional
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campaign we might setup).
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The cost depends on how many users you serve. Say you serve N users.
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To calculate the donation fee insert it in the following formula:
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US$ 200 * ( 1 - ( 0.995 ^ N ) )
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You can send the money in cash dollar bills, or as a check (please add
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$25 for handling, in that case). Other currencies accepted are the equivalent
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in English pounds, German marks, and Dutch guilders. The total cost should be
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well below the amount that you'll save due to reduced support calls from your
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customers complaining about your E-mail service :-).
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Do not forget to include a note detailing your E-mail address. You'll
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receive an official invoice and a confirmation in return that you have been
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registered and enrolled on the mailinglist. The snail-mail address to send
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the money and registration to is listed at the end of this document.
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If you need an invoice before sending the money, contact me by E-mail first.
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"What happens if I don't pay?" Well, at first, nothing, of course.
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Then you'll realise you miss out on all of the support features listed above.
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Next your conscious will start nagging (well, maybe not if you're
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evil). Eventually you'll beg me to accept money (except the really evil
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people). After some time, we'll eventually find out that you haven't
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paid (since the Internet reaches everywhere, there really is no place
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to hide, we'll find you, it's only a matter of time), in which case you
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and your company's name will make it onto our well-published list of
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organisations that use it, but do not want to pay.
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