ANDROID SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT
LICENSE AGREEMENT
1. Introduction
1.1 The Android Software Development Kit (referred to in this License Agreement as the "SDK" and
specifically including the Android system files and packaged APIs) 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.
1.2 "Google" means Google Inc., a Delaware corporation with principal place of business at 1600
Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.
1.3 This version of the Android SDK is being offered to the developer community on an "Early Look" basis.
With the help and input of the developer community, Google will continue to add new functionality and
features to continually improve the SDK. Once the SDK reaches a more finished form, Google intends to
release most of the components under the Apache v2.0 open source license.
2. Accepting this License Agreement
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.
2.2 You can accept this License Agreement by:
(A) clicking to accept or agree to this License Agreement, where this option is made available to you;
or
(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.
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.
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.
3. SDK License from Google
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
4. Use of the SDK by You
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 which subsist in those applications.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
5. Your Developer Credentials
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.
6. Privacy and Information
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.
6.2 The data collected is examined in the aggregate to improve the SDK and is maintained in accordance with
Google's Privacy Policy.
7. Third Party Applications for the Android Platform
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.
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.
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.
8. Using Android APIs
8.1 Android Maps API
8.1.1 If you use the Android Maps API (described in the SDK by the Package name
"com.google.android.maps"), the terms of your binding legal agreement with Google include this
License Agreement, the Google Maps API Terms of Service and the Google Maps Terms of
Service. You must read and agree to those Terms of Service before you use the Android Maps
API.
8.1.2 If you use the Android Maps API to retrieve map or satellite image data from Google, you must
include the following copyright notice in your application or service in a manner that is reasonably
available to users:
"Copyright Notice: Data: (c)2007 TeleAtlas, AND, Europa Technologies,
Kingway, Map Data Sciences Pty Ltd, PSMA, ZENRIN, Geocentre,
MapLink/TeleAtlas; Imagery: (c)2007 DigitalGlobe, EarthSat, Sanborn,
NYGIS, Scankort, TerraMetrics, MassGIS Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Digital Earth Technology."
8.2 Google Data APIs
8.2.1 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 those who provide that data (or by other
persons or companies on their behalf). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or
create derivative works based on this data (either in whole or in part) unless you have been
specifically given permission to do so by the owners of that data.
8.2.2 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.
9. Terminating this License Agreement
9.1 This License Agreement will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Google as set out below.
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.
9.3 Google may at any time, terminate this License Agreement with you if:
(A) you have breached any provision of this License Agreement; or
(B) Google is required to do so by law; or
(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
(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.
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.
10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
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.
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.
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.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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.
12. Indemnification
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.
13. Changes to the License Agreement
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 and with the SDK downloadable.
13.2 You agree that your use of a specific version of the SDK is governed by the License Agreement included
with that version of the SDK.
14. General Legal Terms
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 12, 2008
