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+The content of the Android NDK is covered by various open-source licenses.
+See the copyright disclaimers in each respective file for details.
+
+Note that the public Android NDK release packages also contain prebuilt binaries
+for the compiler, linker, archiver, etc... The source code for the toolchain is
+available at http://android.git.kernel.org/pub
+
+The prebuilt binaries are covered by either the GNU General Public License (GPL),
+or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For details, see the files
+COPYING and COPYING.LIB under 'build/prebuilt/<system>/<toolchain>'