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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
you as part of the <a href="http://source.android.com">Android Open
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>

<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
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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>

<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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<h2 id="restrictions">Restrictions</h2>

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<h2 id="attribution">Attribution</h2>
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Creative Commons legal code</a>.
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<p>
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<h2 id="doclicenses">Documentation Licenses</h2>
<h3 id="icu">ICU License</h3>
<p>The Android public API documentation incorporates text from the following source code libraries under the ICU License:</p>
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<li><a href="{@docRoot}reference/android/icu/lang/package-summary.html">android.icu.lang</a></li>
<li><a href="{@docRoot}reference/android/icu/math/package-summary.html">android.icu.math</a></li>
<li><a href="{@docRoot}reference/android/icu/text/package-summary.html">android.icu.text</a></li>
<li><a href="{@docRoot}reference/android/icu/util/package-summary.html">android.icu.util</a></li>
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<p>COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE</p>

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<h3 id="w3c_license">W3C Software and Document Notice and License</h3>
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