key: android-sdk-license
short_name: Android SDK License 2015
name: Android Software Development Kit License Agreement 2015
category: Proprietary Free
owner: Google
homepage_url: https://developer.android.com/studio/terms.html
spdx_license_key: LicenseRef-scancode-android-sdk-license
ignorable_urls:
  - http://source.android.com/
  - http://source.android.com/compatibility
text: |
  This is the Android Software Development Kit License Agreement

  1. Introduction

  1.1 The Android Software Development Kit (referred to in the 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 the License
  Agreement. The License Agreement forms a legally binding contract between you
  and Google in relation to your use of the SDK.

  1.2 "Android" means the Android software stack for devices, as made available
  under the Android Open Source Project, which is located at the following URL:
  http://source.android.com/, as updated from time to time.

  1.3 A "compatible implementation" means any Android device that (i) complies
  with the Android Compatibility Definition document, which can be found at the
  Android compatibility website (http://source.android.com/compatibility) and
  which may be updated from time to time; and (ii) successfully passes the Android
  Compatibility Test Suite (CTS).

  1.4 "Google" means Google Inc., a Delaware corporation with principal place of
  business at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.


  2. Accepting this License Agreement

  2.1 In order to use the SDK, you must first agree to the License Agreement. You
  may not use the SDK if you do not accept the License Agreement.

  2.2 By clicking to accept, you hereby agree to the terms of the License
  Agreement.

  2.3 You may not use the SDK and may not accept the License 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 the 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 the License Agreement. If you
  do not have the requisite authority, you may not accept the License 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 the License Agreement, Google grants you a limited,
  worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, and non-sublicensable
  license to use the SDK solely to develop applications for compatible
  implementations of Android.

  3.2 You may not use this SDK to develop applications for other platforms
  (including non-compatible implementations of Android) or to develop another SDK.
  You are of course free to develop applications for other platforms, including
  non-compatible implementations of Android, provided that this SDK is not used
  for that purpose.

  3.3 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.

  3.4 You may not use the SDK for any purpose not expressly permitted by the
  License Agreement.  Except to the extent required by applicable third party
  licenses, you may not: (a) 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; or (b) 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.

  3.5 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 the License Agreement.

  3.6 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.

  3.7 Nothing in the 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.

  3.8 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 the License Agreement in or to any software applications that
  you develop using the SDK, including any intellectual property rights that
  subsist in those applications.

  4.2 You agree to use the SDK and write applications only for purposes that are
  permitted by (a) the 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, you 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 Android and/or applications for
  Android, 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 the 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

  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, the License Agreement does not affect your
  legal relationship with these third parties.


  8. Using Android APIs

  8.1 Google Data APIs

  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.

  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.


  9. Terminating this License Agreement

  9.1 The License Agreement will continue to apply until terminated by either you
  or Google as set out below.

  9.2 If you want to terminate the 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 the License Agreement with you if:
  (A) you have breached any provision of the 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 provide 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 the 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 the 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 the
  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.


  14. General Legal Terms

  14.1 The License Agreement constitutes the whole legal agreement between you and
  Google and governs your use of the SDK (excluding any services which Google may
  provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replaces 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 the 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 the License Agreement is invalid, then that
  provision will be removed from the License Agreement without affecting the rest
  of the License Agreement. The remaining provisions of the 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 the License
  Agreement and that such other companies shall be entitled to directly enforce,
  and rely upon, any provision of the 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 the 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 the 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 the License Agreement without the prior
  written approval of the other party.

  14.7 The License Agreement, and your relationship with Google under the 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 the 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.


  November 20, 2015
