[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to use official Android icons in paid apps?

2011-01-28 Thread Brill Pappin
Thats a good questions. I know that even Google Engineers will suggest that if you want to use the icons in the SDK that you make your own copy to bundle with the app. Although based on what you've highlighted here thats not supposed to happen. However, at the same time all the source is license

[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to use official Android icons in paid apps?

2011-01-28 Thread Mariux
This is really hard to find out. There's no clear statement that SDK components as platform images are effectively Open Source (under Apache License). There are a lot of paid apps that use, for example, Gingerbread icons and drawables, even full apps ripped or reverse-engineered from Gingerbread

[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to use official Android icons in paid apps?

2011-01-28 Thread username at localhost
On Jan 28, 4:06 am, Mariux mariu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, is there some sort of prohibition to use official Android icons in paid apps? The Android SDK Terms of use reports this: 3.3 Except to the extent required by applicable third party licenses, you may not copy (except for backup