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      6   <h1>Content License</h1>
      7 <p>For the purposes of licensing, the content of this web site is divided
      8 into two categories:</p>
      9 <ul>
     10   <li>Documentation content, including both static documentation and content extracted from source
     11   code modules, as well as sample code, and </li>
     12 <li>All other site content</li>
     13 </ul>
     14 
     15 <p>The documentation content on this site is made available to
     16 you as part of the <a href="http://source.android.com">Android Open
     17 Source Project</a>. This documentation, including any code shown in it,
     18 is licensed under the <a
     19 href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache 2.0
     20 license</a>, the preferred license for all parts of the of the Android
     21 Open Source Project.</p>
     22 
     23 <p>Apache 2.0 is a commercial and open-source-friendly software
     24 license. The majority of the Android platform and documentation is
     25 licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. While the project strives to
     26 adhere to the preferred license, there may be exceptions, such as for
     27 documentation (code comments) extracted from a source code module that
     28 is licensed under GPLv2 or other license. In those cases, the license
     29 covering the source code module will apply to the documentation
     30 extracted from it. </p>
     31 
     32 <p>Third-party components of this site such as JavaScript libraries are included in the Android
     33 Open Source Project under the licenses specified by their authors. For information about these
     34 licenses, refer to the source files in the Android Open Source Project.</p>
     35 
     36 <p>All other content on this site, except the license documents themselves
     37 and as otherwise noted, is licensed under the <a
     38 href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/">Creative Commons
     39 Attribution 2.5</a> license. </p>
     40 
     41 <p>You may use the content of this site in any way that is consistent
     42 with the specific license that applies to the content, as described
     43 above. For content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5, we
     44 ask that you give proper <a href="#attribution">attribution</a>. </p>
     45 
     46 
     47 <h2 id="terms">Terms of Use</h2>
     48 
     49 <p>We are pleased to license the Android documentation and sample code under
     50 terms that encourage you to take, modify, reuse, re-purpose, and remix the
     51 content as you see fit. Except as noted in the <a href="#restrictions">Restrictions</a> section
     52 below, you
     53 are free to use the documentation content in your own creations. For example,
     54 you could quote the text in a book, cut-and-paste sections to your blog, record
     55 it as an audiobook for the visually impaired, or even translate it. </p>
     56 
     57 
     58 <h2 id="restrictions">Restrictions</h2>
     59 
     60 <ul>
     61 <li>While the documentation itself is available to you under the Apache 2.0
     62 license, note that proprietary trademarks and brand features are not
     63 included in that license.</li>
     64 
     65 <li>Google's trademarks and other brand features (including the
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     67 style="margin:0;padding:0 2px;vertical-align:baseline" /> stylized typeface logo) are not included
     68 in the license.
     69 Please see <a
     70 href="http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/brand.html">Brand Guidelines</a> for
     71 information about this usage. </li>
     72 
     73 <li>In some cases, a page may include content, such as an image, that is not
     74 covered by the license. In that case, we will label the content that is not licensed. </li>
     75 
     76 <li>In addition, content linked from a page on this site is not covered
     77 by the license unless specifically noted. For example, pages may link to videos or
     78 slide decks that are not covered.</li>
     79 
     80 <li>The use of sample source code provided in the SDK or shown in this
     81 documentation is subject to the conditions detailed in the <a
     82 href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache 2.0 license</a>.</li>
     83 </ul>
     84 
     85 <h2 id="attribution">Attribution</h2>
     86 <p>
     87 Proper attribution is required when you reuse or create modified
     88 versions of content that appears on a page made available under the
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     90 requirement for attribution applies only to the non-documentation
     91 content, as described earlier in this document. The complete
     92 requirements for attribution can be found in section 4b of the
     93 <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode">
     94 Creative Commons legal code</a>.
     95 </p>
     96 <p>
     97  In practice we ask that you provide attribution to the Android Open
     98  Source project to the best of the ability of the medium in which you
     99  are producing the work. There are several typical ways in which this
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    115 </p>
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    134  Again, please link back to the original source page so that readers can
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