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<p>This is the Android Software Development Kit License Agreement.</p> 
 
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	1. Introduction
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<p> 
	1.1 The Android Software Development Kit (referred to in this License Agreement as the "SDK"
and specifically including the Android system files, packaged APIs, and Google APIs add-ons) is
licensed to you subject to the terms of this License Agreement. This License Agreement forms a
legally binding contract between you and Google in relation to your use of the SDK.
 
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<p> 
	1.2 "Google" means Google Inc., a Delaware corporation with principal place of business at
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.
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	2. Accepting this License Agreement
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<p> 
	2.1 In order to use the SDK, you must first agree to this License Agreement. You may not use
the SDK if you do not accept this License Agreement.
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<p> 
	2.2 You can accept this License Agreement by:
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<p> 
	(A) clicking to accept or agree to this License Agreement, where this option is made
available to you; or
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<p> 
	(B) by actually using the SDK. In this case, you agree that use of the SDK constitutes
acceptance of the Licensing Agreement from that point onwards.
</p> 
<p> 
	2.3 You may not use the SDK and may not accept the Licensing Agreement if you are a person
barred from receiving the SDK under the laws of the United States or other countries including the
country in which you are resident or from which you use the SDK.
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<p> 
	2.4 If you are agreeing to be bound by this License Agreement on behalf of your employer or
other entity, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind your employer or
such entity to this License Agreement. If you do not have the requisite authority, you may not
accept the Licensing Agreement or use the SDK on behalf of your employer or other entity.
</p> 
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	3. SDK License from Google
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<p> 
	3.1 Subject to the terms of this License Agreement, Google grants you a limited, worldwide,
royalty-free, non- assignable and non-exclusive license to use the SDK solely to develop
applications to run on the Android platform.
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<p> 
	3.2 You agree that Google or third parties own all legal right, title and interest in and to
the SDK, including any Intellectual Property Rights that subsist in the SDK. "Intellectual Property
Rights" means any and all rights under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law, trademark law,
and any and all other proprietary rights. Google reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. 
 
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<p> 
	3.3 Except to the extent required by applicable third party licenses, you may not copy
(except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble,
or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK. Except to the extent required by
applicable third party licenses, you may not load any part of the SDK onto a mobile handset or any
other hardware device except a personal computer, combine any part of the SDK with other software,
or distribute any software or device incorporating a part of the SDK. 
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<p> 
	3.4 Use, reproduction and distribution of components of the SDK licensed under an open
source software license are governed solely by the terms of that open source software license and
not this License Agreement.
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<p> 
	3.5 You agree that the form and nature of the SDK that Google provides may change without
prior notice to you and that future versions of the SDK may be incompatible with applications
developed on previous versions of the SDK. You agree that Google may stop (permanently or
temporarily) providing the SDK (or any features within the SDK) to you or to users generally at
Google's sole discretion, without prior notice to you.
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<p> 
	3.6 Nothing in this License Agreement gives you a right to use any of Google's trade names,
trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, or other distinctive brand features.
</p> 
<p> 
	3.7 You agree that you will not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices
(including copyright and trademark notices) that may be affixed to or contained within the SDK.
</p> 
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	4. Use of the SDK by You
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<p> 
	4.1 Google agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors)
under this License Agreement in or to any software applications that you develop using the SDK,
including any intellectual property rights that subsist in those applications. 
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<p> 
	4.2 You agree to use the SDK and write applications only for purposes that are permitted by
(a) this License Agreement and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or
guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or
software to and from the United States or other relevant countries).
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<p> 
	4.3 You agree that if you use the SDK to develop applications for general public users, you
will protect the privacy and legal rights of those users. If the users provide you with user names,
passwords, or other login information or personal information, your must make the users aware that
the information will be available to your application, and you must provide legally adequate privacy
notice and protection for those users. If your application stores personal or sensitive information
provided by users, it must do so securely. If the user provides your application with Google Account
information, your application may only use that information to access the user's Google Account
when, and for the limited purposes for which, the user has given you permission to do so.
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<p> 
	4.4 You agree that you will not engage in any activity with the SDK, including the
development or distribution of an application, that interferes with, disrupts, damages, or accesses
in an unauthorized manner the servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party
including, but not limited to, Google or any mobile communications carrier.
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<p> 
	4.5 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Google has no responsibility to
you or to any third party for) any data, content, or resources that you create, transmit or display
through the Android platform and/or applications for the Android platform, and for the consequences
of your actions (including any loss or damage which Google may suffer) by doing so.
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<p> 
	4.6 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Google has no responsibility to
you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under this License Agreement, any
applicable third party contract or Terms of Service, or any applicable law or regulation, and for
the consequences (including any loss or damage which Google or any third party may suffer) of any
such breach.
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	5. Your Developer Credentials
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<p> 
	5.1 You agree that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any developer
credentials that may be issued to you by Google or which you may choose yourself and that you will
be solely responsible for all applications that are developed under your developer credentials.
</p> 
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	6. Privacy and Information
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<p> 
	6.1 In order to continually innovate and improve the SDK, Google may collect certain usage
statistics from the software including but not limited to a unique identifier, associated IP
address, version number of the software, and information on which tools and/or services in the SDK
are being used and how they are being used. Before any of this information is collected, the SDK
will notify you and seek your consent. If you withhold consent, the information will not be
collected.
</p> 
<p> 
	6.2 The data collected is examined in the aggregate to improve the SDK and is maintained in
accordance with Google's Privacy Policy.
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	7. Third Party Applications for the Android Platform
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<p> 
	7.1 If you use the SDK to run applications developed by a third party or that access data,
content or resources provided by a third party, you agree that Google is not responsible for those
applications, data, content, or resources. You understand that all data, content or resources which
you may access through such third party applications are the sole responsibility of the person from
which they originated and that Google is not liable for any loss or damage that you may experience
as a result of the use or access of any of those third party applications, data, content, or
resources.
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	7.2 You should be aware the data, content, and resources presented to you through such a
third party application may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the
providers (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan,
sell, distribute or create derivative works based on these data, content, or resources (either in
whole or in part) unless you have been specifically given permission to do so by the relevant
owners.
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<p> 
	7.3 You acknowledge that your use of such third party applications, data, content, or
resources may be subject to separate terms between you and the relevant third party. In that case,
this License Agreement does not affect your legal relationship with these third parties.
</p> 
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	8. Using Android APIs
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<p> 
	8.1 Google Data APIs
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<p> 
	8.1.1 If you use any API to retrieve data from Google, you acknowledge that the data may be
protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by Google or those parties that provide
the data (or by other persons or companies on their behalf). Your use of any such API may be subject
to additional Terms of Service. You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create
derivative works based on this data (either in whole or in part) unless allowed by the relevant
Terms of Service.
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	8.1.2 If you use any API to retrieve a user's data from Google, you acknowledge and agree
that you shall retrieve data only with the user's explicit consent and only when, and for the
limited purposes for which, the user has given you permission to do so. 
 
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<h2> 
	9. Terminating this License Agreement
</h2> 
<p> 
	9.1 This License Agreement will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Google
as set out below.
</p> 
<p> 
	9.2 If you want to terminate this License Agreement, you may do so by ceasing your use of
the SDK and any relevant developer credentials.
</p> 
<p> 
	9.3 Google may at any time, terminate this License Agreement with you if:
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	(A) you have breached any provision of this License Agreement; or
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	(B) Google is required to do so by law; or
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	(C) the partner with whom Google offered certain parts of SDK (such as APIs) to you has
terminated its relationship with Google or ceased to offer certain parts of the SDK to you; or
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	(D) Google decides to no longer providing the SDK or certain parts of the SDK to users in
the country in which you are resident or from which you use the service, or the provision of the SDK
or certain SDK services to you by Google is, in Google's sole discretion, no longer commercially
viable.
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<p> 
	9.4 When this License Agreement comes to an end, all of the legal rights, obligations and
liabilities that you and Google have benefited from, been subject to (or which have accrued over
time whilst this License Agreement has been in force) or which are expressed to continue
indefinitely, shall be unaffected by this cessation, and the provisions of paragraph 14.7 shall
continue to apply to such rights, obligations and liabilities indefinitely.
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	10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
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<p> 
	10.1 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SDK IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND
THAT THE SDK IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND FROM GOOGLE.
</p> 
<p> 
	10.2 YOUR USE OF THE SDK AND ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE
OF THE SDK IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR
COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH USE.
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	10.3 GOOGLE FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
</p> 
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	11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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<p> 
	11.1 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT GOOGLE, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND
ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES THAT MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING ANY
LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER OR NOT GOOGLE OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN
AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.
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	12. Indemnification
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<p> 
	12.1 To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold
harmless Google, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from
and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses,
liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or
accruing from (a) your use of the SDK, (b) any application you develop on the SDK that infringes any
copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property right of any
person or defames any person or violates their rights of publicity or privacy, and (c) any
non-compliance by you with this License Agreement.
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	13. Changes to the License Agreement
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<p> 
	13.1 Google may make changes to the License Agreement as it distributes new versions of the
SDK. When these changes are made, Google will make a new version of the License Agreement available
on the website where the SDK is made available.
</p> 
<h2> 
	14. General Legal Terms
</h2> 
<p> 
	14.1 This License Agreement constitute the whole legal agreement between you and Google and
govern your use of the SDK (excluding any services which Google may provide to you under a separate
written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and Google in relation
to the SDK.
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<p> 
	14.2 You agree that if Google does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which
is contained in this License Agreement (or which Google has the benefit of under any applicable
law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of Google's rights and that those rights or
remedies will still be available to Google.
</p> 
<p> 
	14.3 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any
provision of this License Agreement is invalid, then that provision will be removed from this
License Agreement without affecting the rest of this License Agreement. The remaining provisions of
this License Agreement will continue to be valid and enforceable.
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<p> 
	14.4 You acknowledge and agree that each member of the group of companies of which Google is
the parent shall be third party beneficiaries to this License Agreement and that such other
companies shall be entitled to directly enforce, and rely upon, any provision of this License
Agreement that confers a benefit on (or rights in favor of) them. Other than this, no other person
or company shall be third party beneficiaries to this License Agreement.
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<p> 
	14.5 EXPORT RESTRICTIONS. THE SDK IS SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES EXPORT LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
YOU MUST COMPLY WITH ALL DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL EXPORT LAWS AND REGULATIONS THAT APPLY TO THE
SDK. THESE LAWS INCLUDE RESTRICTIONS ON DESTINATIONS, END USERS AND END USE.
</p> 
<p> 
	14.6 The rights granted in this License Agreement may not be assigned or transferred by
either you or Google without the prior written approval of the other party. Neither you nor Google
shall be permitted to delegate their responsibilities or obligations under this License Agreement
without the prior written approval of the other party.
</p> 
<p> 
	14.7 This License Agreement, and your relationship with Google under this License Agreement,
shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws
provisions. You and Google agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located
within the county of Santa Clara, California to resolve any legal matter arising from this License
Agreement. Notwithstanding this, you agree that Google shall still be allowed to apply for
injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.
</p> 
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	<em>April 10, 2009</em> 
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