title: License to include in closed source Android App using Firebase
body: <p>I am developing a closed source android app that uses Firebase (and Firebase requires Google Play Services).</p>
  
  <p>In the firebase <a href="https://firebase.google.com/support/faq/" rel="nofollow">FAQ</a> it says:</p>
  
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    <p>What open source notices should I include in my app?</p>
    
    <blockquote>
      <p>On Android use, the <a href="https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/common/GoogleApiAvailability#getOpenSourceSoftwareLicenseInfo(android.content.Context)" rel="nofollow">getOpenSourceSoftwareLicenseInfo</a> method to retrieve the text of licenses to display in your application.</p>
      
      <p>On iOS, the Firebase pod contains a NOTICES file which includes the relevant entries.</p>
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  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Is that only for open source software or also for closed source software?
  Additionally that getOpenSourceSoftwareLicenseInfo() function takes like 10 seconds and loads more than half a megabyte of text. It's ridiculous. Is that really the correct license text to display?</p>
  
  <p>I checked multiple other commercial projects, I never found a license THAT long. Do they just ignore it and hope no one sues?
  What I always found was something like "This app contains source code from the Google Open Source Project...[apache stuff]". Would that part be enough? Is there an alternative way to this strange getOpenSourceSoftwareLicenseInfo() function? It's almost unusable and the user has to wait a long time for the license to show.</p>
  
  <p>I also checked some of googles own projects that are public on Github. They never used getOpenSourceSoftwareLicenseInfo in those projects.</p>
  
  <p>Any recommendations on how what and how to display?</p>