I'm sorry if this is not relevant. I understand that no-one on here is a 
lawyer - but I thought that developers need to have some appreciation of 
software licensing and was hoping for some general guidance.

Many apologies.

On Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:17:32 UTC, Lew wrote:
>
> saladbowl wrote:
>
>> If I copy a few lines here and there (but not entire functions/files) 
>> from example code on the Android Developers site and the samples, modify 
>> them and use them in my commercial project, I assume as they are licensed 
>> under Apache 3.0 that my work will be a derivative I need to provide some 
>> sort of attribution?. Also, what do I do about my copyright header at the 
>> top of the file?. 
>>
>> I want to be 100% legit but I am really confused - surely when you use a 
>> framework you have to use bits and pieces from samples to help you? 
>> however, I don't see anyone else attributing (not that this is necessarily 
>> right).
>>
>> Please help me understand!.
>>
>
> Are you asking a bunch of programmers for legal advice?
>
> Do you ask medical advice of ballet dancers, too?
>
> -- 
> Lew
>  
>

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