You make standard readme for rendo's requirements, then you make a 'user manual' in PDF format.  I don't think they can prevent you from doing that?
Rendo's readme to me is more like release notes and terms of use.

And if they don't let me do that, I'll provide a User Manual PDF (or maybe HTML format, I haven't decided yet) as a "bonus item".
Plus, I'll have a product support website/forum, wher the same will be made available.

What I don't want to do is dumb dowm the product, or forgo innovations, in order to make it fit within 70 Meg or not being able to provide proper instructions. There's  not much you can do wioth a txt file, but provide a long boring textual description that most people won't have patience to read.

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