Re: 'gittutorial(7)' translation

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2011, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID: <BANLkTin+5v2_ZkumNr0XtRoP1p4yAMTgQg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DAD97A0.2050207@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 16:09, MR <by.marcis@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm willing to translate publication located at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html to the
> Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is your written
> permission, so you don't mind after I'll post the translation to my blog.
> The translation is intended only for web, no print copies planned.
> Visitors of your website, who come from Minsk (Belorussia) will be the ones,
> who will read this blogpost, that's the only way to spread them, no
> additional instruments we can use. Every translation we ever do does not
> costs a penny for the webpage, which is translated. All we ask is to link
> back in whatever way you feel confident about it.

Git, including its documentation, is a freely licensed project under the GNU General Public License version 2. You do not need written permission to translate gittutorial, and it would be great if you did so.

See e.g. this for more:

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#WhyDoesTheGPLPermitUsersToPublishTheirModifiedVersions