Hello, The documentation is released under Apache 2.0
You are free to modify and translate. Just go through the below *Redistribution *section also. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Regards, Jagat Singh On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:04 AM, <vseslava.kavch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > 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://hadoop.apache.org/** > common/docs/stable/hdfs_user_**guide.html<http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/stable/hdfs_user_guide.html>into > , 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! > > Cheers, > > >