diff --git a/core/Makefile b/core/Makefile
index 8085398..4475071 100644
--- a/core/Makefile
+++ b/core/Makefile
@@ -440,78 +440,9 @@
 # Then we could traverse that without quite as much bash drama.
 define combine-notice-files
 $(1) $(2): PRIVATE_MESSAGE := $(3)
-$(1) $(2) $(4)/hash-timestamp: PRIVATE_DIR := $(4)
-$(4)/hash-timestamp: $(5) $(BUILD_SYSTEM)/Makefile
-	@echo Finding NOTICE files: $$@
-	$$(hide) rm -rf $$@ $$(PRIVATE_DIR)/hash
-	$$(hide) mkdir -p $$(PRIVATE_DIR)/hash
-	$$(hide) for file in $$$$(find $$(PRIVATE_DIR)/src -type f); do \
-			hash=$$$$($(MD5SUM) $$$$file | sed -e "s/ .*//"); \
-			hashfile=$$(PRIVATE_DIR)/hash/$$$$hash; \
-			echo $$$$file >> $$$$hashfile; \
-		done
-	$$(hide) touch $$@
-$(1): $(4)/hash-timestamp
-	@echo Combining NOTICE files: $$@
-	$$(hide) mkdir -p $$(dir $$@)
-	$$(hide) echo $$(PRIVATE_MESSAGE) > $$@
-	$$(hide) find $$(PRIVATE_DIR)/hash -type f | xargs cat | sort | \
-		sed -e "s:$$(PRIVATE_DIR)/src\(.*\)\.txt:  \1:" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo >> $$@
-	$$(hide) for hashfile in $$$$(find $$(PRIVATE_DIR)/hash -type f); do \
-			echo "============================================================"\
-				>> $$@; \
-			echo "Notices for file(s):" >> $$@; \
-			cat $$$$hashfile | sort | \
-				sed -e "s:$$(PRIVATE_DIR)/src\(.*\)\.txt:  \1:" >> \
-				$$@; \
-			echo "------------------------------------------------------------"\
-				>> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-			orig=$$$$(head -n 1 $$$$hashfile); \
-			cat $$$$orig >> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-		done
-$(2): $(4)/hash-timestamp
-	@echo Combining NOTICE files: $$@
-	$$(hide) mkdir -p $$(dir $$@)
-	$$(hide) echo "<html><head>" > $$@
-	$$(hide) echo "<style type=\"text/css\">" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo "body { padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; }" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo ".same-license { background-color: #eeeeee; border-top: 20px solid white; padding: 10px; }" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo ".label { font-weight: bold; }" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo ".file-list { margin-left: 1em; font-color: blue; }" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo "</style>" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo "</head><body topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\" rightmargin=\"0\" bottommargin=\"0\">" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo "<table cellpading=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\">" \
-		>> $$@
-	$$(hide) for hashfile in $$$$(find $$(PRIVATE_DIR)/hash -type f); do \
-			cat $$$$hashfile | sort | \
-				sed -e "s:$$(PRIVATE_DIR)/src\(.*\)\.txt:  <a name=\"\1\"></a>:" >> \
-				$$@; \
-			echo "<tr><td class=\"same-license\">" >> $$@; \
-			echo "<div class=\"label\">Notices for file(s):</div>" >> $$@; \
-			echo "<div class=\"file-list\">" >> $$@; \
-			cat $$$$hashfile | sort | \
-				sed -e "s:$$(PRIVATE_DIR)/src\(.*\)\.txt:  \1<br/>:" >> $$@; \
-			echo "</div><!-- file-list -->" >> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-			orig=$$$$(head -n 1 $$$$hashfile); \
-			echo "<pre class=\"license-text\">" >> $$@; \
-			cat $$$$orig | sed -e "s/\&/\&amp;/g" | sed -e "s/</\&lt;/g" \
-					| sed -e "s/>/\&gt;/g" >> $$@; \
-			echo "</pre><!-- license-text -->" >> $$@; \
-			echo "</td></tr><!-- same-license -->" >> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-			echo >> $$@; \
-		done
-	$$(hide) echo "</table>" >> $$@
-	$$(hide) echo "</body></html>" >> $$@
+$(1) $(2): PRIVATE_DIR := $(4)
+$(1) $(2): $(5) $(BUILD_SYSTEM)/Makefile build/tools/generate-notice-files.py
+	build/tools/generate-notice-files.py $(1) $(2) $$(PRIVATE_MESSAGE) $$(PRIVATE_DIR)/src
 notice_files: $(1) $(2)
 endef
 
diff --git a/core/binary.mk b/core/binary.mk
index c5db242..f20a6a6 100644
--- a/core/binary.mk
+++ b/core/binary.mk
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@
     $(proto_generated_objects) \
     $(addprefix $(TOPDIR)$(LOCAL_PATH)/,$(LOCAL_PREBUILT_OBJ_FILES))
 
-LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(TOPDIR)$(LOCAL_PATH) $(intermediates) $(base_intermediates)
+LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(TOPDIR)$(LOCAL_PATH) $(intermediates)
 
 ifndef LOCAL_NDK_VERSION
   LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += $(JNI_H_INCLUDE)
diff --git a/tools/generate-notice-files.py b/tools/generate-notice-files.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4571b70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/generate-notice-files.py
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""
+Usage: generate-notice-files [plain text output file] [html output file] [file title] [directory of notices]
+
+Generate the Android notice files, including both text and html files.
+
+-h to display this usage message and exit.
+"""
+from collections import defaultdict
+import getopt
+import hashlib
+import itertools
+import os
+import os.path
+import re
+import sys
+
+MD5_BLOCKSIZE = 1024 * 1024
+HTML_ESCAPE_TABLE = {
+    "&": "&amp;",
+    '"': "&quot;",
+    "'": "&apos;",
+    ">": "&gt;",
+    "<": "&lt;",
+    }
+
+try:
+  opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "h")
+except getopt.GetoptError, err:
+    print str(err)
+    print __doc__
+    sys.exit(2)
+
+for o, a in opts:
+  if o == "-h":
+    print __doc__
+    sys.exit(2)
+  else:
+    print >> sys.stderr, "unhandled option %s" % (o,)
+
+if len(args) != 4:
+    print """need exactly four arguments, the two output files, the file title
+             and the directory containing notices, not %d""" % (len(args),)
+    print __doc__
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+def hexify(s):
+    return ("%02x"*len(s)) % tuple(map(ord, s))
+
+def md5sum(filename):
+    """Calculate an MD5 of the file given by FILENAME,
+    and return hex digest as a string.
+    Output should be compatible with md5sum command"""
+
+    f = open(filename, "rb")
+    sum = hashlib.md5()
+    while 1:
+        block = f.read(MD5_BLOCKSIZE)
+        if not block:
+            break
+        sum.update(block)
+    f.close()
+    return hexify(sum.digest())
+
+
+def html_escape(text):
+    """Produce entities within text."""
+    return "".join(HTML_ESCAPE_TABLE.get(c,c) for c in text)
+
+HTML_OUTPUT_CSS="""
+<style type="text/css">
+body { padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; }
+.same-license { background-color: #eeeeee; border-top: 20px solid white; padding: 10px; }
+.label { font-weight: bold; }
+.file-list { margin-left: 1em; color: blue; }
+</style>
+"""
+
+def combine_notice_files_html(file_hash, input_dir, output_filename):
+    """Combine notice files in FILE_HASH and output a HTML version to OUTPUT_FILENAME."""
+
+    SRC_DIR_STRIP_RE = re.compile(input_dir + "(/.*).txt")
+
+    # Set up a filename to row id table (anchors inside tables don't work in
+    # most browsers, but href's to table row ids do)
+    id_table = {}
+    id_count = 0
+    for value in file_hash.values():
+        for filename in value:
+             id_table[filename] = id_count
+        id_count += 1
+
+    # Open the output file, and output the header pieces
+    output_file = open(output_filename, "wb")
+
+    print >> output_file, "<html><head>"
+    print >> output_file, HTML_OUTPUT_CSS
+    print >> output_file, '</head><body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0">'
+
+    # Output our table of contents
+    print >> output_file, '<div class="toc">'
+    print >> output_file, "<ul>"
+
+    # Flatten the list of lists into a single list of filenames
+    sorted_filenames = sorted(itertools.chain.from_iterable(file_hash.values()))
+
+    # Print out a nice table of contents
+    for filename in sorted_filenames:
+        stripped_filename = SRC_DIR_STRIP_RE.sub(r"\1", filename)
+        print >> output_file, '<li><a href="#id%d">%s</a></li>' % (id_table.get(filename), stripped_filename)
+
+    print >> output_file, "</ul>"
+    print >> output_file, "</div><!-- table of contents -->"
+    # Output the individual notice file lists
+    print >>output_file, '<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">'
+    for value in file_hash.values():
+        print >> output_file, '<tr id="id%d"><td class="same-license">' % id_table.get(value[0])
+        print >> output_file, '<div class="label">Notices for file(s):</div>'
+        print >> output_file, '<div class="file-list">'
+        for filename in sorted(value):
+            print >> output_file, "%s <br/>" % (SRC_DIR_STRIP_RE.sub(r"\1", filename))
+        print >> output_file, "</div><!-- file-list -->"
+        print >> output_file
+        print >> output_file, '<pre class="license-text">'
+        print >> output_file, html_escape(open(value[0]).read())
+        print >> output_file, "</pre><!-- license-text -->"
+        print >> output_file, "</td></tr><!-- same-license -->"
+        print >> output_file
+        print >> output_file
+        print >> output_file
+
+    # Finish off the file output
+    print >> output_file, "</table>"
+    print >> output_file, "</body></html>"
+    output_file.close()
+
+def combine_notice_files_text(file_hash, input_dir, output_filename, file_title):
+    """Combine notice files in FILE_HASH and output a text version to OUTPUT_FILENAME."""
+
+    SRC_DIR_STRIP_RE = re.compile(input_dir + "(/.*).txt")
+    output_file = open(output_filename, "wb")
+    print >> output_file, file_title
+    for value in file_hash.values():
+      print >> output_file, "============================================================"
+      print >> output_file, "Notices for file(s):"
+      for filename in sorted(value):
+        print >> output_file, SRC_DIR_STRIP_RE.sub(r"\1", filename)
+      print >> output_file, "------------------------------------------------------------"
+      print >> output_file, open(value[0]).read()
+    output_file.close()
+
+def main(args):
+    txt_output_file = args[0]
+    html_output_file = args[1]
+    file_title = args[2]
+
+    # Find all the notice files and md5 them
+    input_dir = os.path.normpath(args[3])
+    files_with_same_hash = defaultdict(list)
+    for root, dir, files in os.walk(input_dir):
+        for file in files:
+            if file.endswith(".txt"):
+                filename = os.path.join(root, file)
+                file_md5sum = md5sum(filename)
+                files_with_same_hash[file_md5sum].append(filename)
+
+
+    print "Combining NOTICE files into HTML"
+    combine_notice_files_html(files_with_same_hash, input_dir, html_output_file)
+    print "Combining NOTICE files into text"
+    combine_notice_files_text(files_with_same_hash, input_dir, txt_output_file, file_title)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main(args)