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| <h1>Content License</h1> |
| <p>For the purposes of licensing, the content of this web site is divided |
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| <p>The documentation content on this site is made available to |
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| Source Project</a>. This documentation, including any code shown in it, |
| is licensed under the <a |
| href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache 2.0 |
| license</a>, the preferred license for all parts of the of the Android |
| Open Source Project.</p> |
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| <p>Apache 2.0 is a commercial and open-source-friendly software |
| license. The majority of the Android platform and documentation is |
| licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. While the project strives to |
| adhere to the preferred license, there may be exceptions, such as for |
| documentation (code comments) extracted from a source code module that |
| is licensed under GPLv2 or other license. In those cases, the license |
| covering the source code module will apply to the documentation |
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| <p>All other content on this site, except the license documents themselves |
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| <p>You may use the content of this site in any way that is consistent |
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| <h2 id="terms">Terms of Use</h2> |
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| <p>We are pleased to license the Android documentation and sample code under |
| terms that encourage you to take, modify, reuse, re-purpose, and remix the |
| content as you see fit. Except as noted in the <a href="#restrictions">Restrictions</a> section |
| below, you |
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| it as an audiobook for the visually impaired, or even translate it. </p> |
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| <h2 id="restrictions">Restrictions</h2> |
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| <ul> |
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| license, note that proprietary trademarks and brand features are not |
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| <li>The use of sample source code provided in the SDK or shown in this |
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| <h2 id="attribution">Attribution</h2> |
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