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+minetest-steel
+==============
+This mod was quite old, and download link was dead, so I decided to take care of it.
+
+License: GPL v2 for code, CC-BY-SA for textures.
+Original mod by minetesting (João Matos).
+See steel/license.txt for more information, my contributions will stay under the original license.