Does Android Studio need a license?

3.1 Subject to the terms of the License Agreement, Google grants you a limited, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, and non-sublicensable license to use the SDK solely to develop applications for compatible implementations of Android.

Android Studio is based on a bare version of IntelliJ which is open source . The guys from Google added the Android taste on top of IntelliJ and release this under Apache 2 license which is also open source.

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