Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:01 PM >On Jul 17 17:20, Aram Agabekyan wrote: >> I am a student at the Department of Foreign Languages and at the >> same time a volunteer at an organization named "Translation for >> Education". I love surfing on the Internet and being informed about >> the latest happenings around me. Unfortunately, most of my fellow >> citizens don't know English, so that makes them feel somehow >> excluded from all this variety of useful info from the Internet. >> That was the reason that made me decide to start being a volunteer >> at such an NGO. So I created a blog, where I post translations of >> some of the texts that really caught my attention. Sometimes it's a >> simple description of some organization, and sometimes it might be a >> narrowly specialized scientific article. >> Don't you think that I do that without authors' permission! I do ask >> them if they let me translate and then post the translation on my >> blog. And if they don't, then they don't. >> So I am asking you about the same, actually. Could you provide me >> the permission to translate the article on page >> http://cygwin.com/faq.html into Armenian, on condition that the >> translation is absolutely non-commercial and I will mention and >> credit you as the author of the article, and put the link to your >> source next to my translation too. >> >> Hoping for your understanding and waiting for your answer! > >Sounds interesting. No problem at all. It would just be nice if you >could post an URL to this list once your translation is finished. > >Btw., I suggest to add the date of the translation. The FAQs don't >change that often, but if they change, your translation might be >partially outdated without the readers being aware of it.
Perhaps one could add the copyright-related text found on the User's Guide and API Reference to the FAQ. Or consider applying it to the entire - or at least large sections of - the site? It might avoid future related questions. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.