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Welcome to Kivy
===============

Welcome to Kivy's documentation. Kivy is an open source software library for the
rapid development of applications equipped with novel user interfaces, such as
multi-touch apps.

We recommend that you get started with :doc:`/gettingstarted/index`. Then head
over to the :ref:`guide-index`. We also have :ref:`quickstart` if you are
impatient.

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`.

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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Appendix
========

The appendix contains licensing information and an enumeration of all the
different modules, classes, functions and variables available in Kivy.

License
-------

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
regardless of whether they are open source, closed source, commercial or free.
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 2011-2013, The Kivy Authors. All rights reserved.