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Welcome to Kivy
===============
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Welcome to Kivy's documentation. Kivy is an open source software library for rapid
development of applications equipped with novel user interfaces, such as
multi-touch apps.
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We recommend that you get started with :doc: `/gettingstarted/index` . Then head over to the :ref: `guide-index` . We also have a :ref: `quickstart` if you are impatient.
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You are probably wondering why you should be interested in using Kivy. There is
a document outlining our :ref: `philosophy` that we encourage you to read, and a detailed :ref: `architecture` .
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If you want to contribute to Kivy, make sure to read :ref: `contributing` . If your
concern isn't addressed in the documentation, feel free to :ref: `contact` .
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.. include :: contents.rst.inc
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Appendix
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The appendix contains licensing information and an enumeration of all the
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different modules, classes, functions and variables available in Kivy.
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License
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Kivy is released under the terms of the GNU LGPL Version 3.
You should have received a copy of the LGPL alongside your Kivy
distribution. See the file COPYING in the Kivy root folder.
An online version of the license can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt
In a nutshell the license allows you to use Kivy in your own projects,
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regardless of whether they are open source, closed source, commercial or free.
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The one thing the license does enforce is that if you make changes to the
Kivy sourcecode **itself** , you have to share those changes with us.
For a more thorough legal explanation of the terms and conditions, please
refer to the documents listed above.
For a list of authors, please see the file AUTHORS that accompanies the
Kivy source code distribution (next to COPYING).
Kivy -- Copyright 2011, The Kivy Authors. All rights reserved.
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