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The documentation and function provided by Devilution may only be utilized with assets provided by ownership of Diablo. +Devilution is made publicly available and released under the Sustainable Use License (see [LICENCE](LICENCE.md)) The source code in this repository is for non-commerical use only. If you use the source code you may not charge others for access to it or any derivative work thereof.