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• Information about unofficial translations
• The GNU General Public License
• The GNU Lesser General Public License
• The GNU Free Documentation License

Information about unofficial translations

The reason the FSF does not approve these translations as officially valid is that checking them would be difficult and expensive (needing the help of bilingual lawyers in other countries). Even worse, if an error did slip through, the results could be disastrous for the whole free software community. As long as the translations are unofficial, they can't do any harm, and we hope they help more people understand the GPL.

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The GNU General Public License

• [af] Afrikaans translation of the GPL (1) (2)
• [sq] Albanian translation of the GPL
• [ar] Arabic translation of the GPL
• [pt-br] Brazilian Portuguese translation of the GPL
• [ca] Catalan translation of the GPL
• [cn] Chinese (Simplified) translation of the GPL
• [zh] Chinese (Traditional) translation of the GPL (1) (2)
• [cs] Czech translations of the GPL (1) (2)
• [da] Danish translation of the GPL
• [nl] Dutch translation of the GPL
• [eo] Esperanto translation of the GPL
• [fa] Farsi translation of the GPL
• [fi] Finnish translation of the GPL
• [fr] French translation of the GPL
• [gl] Galician translation of the GPL
• [ka] Georgian translation of the GPL
• [de] German translation of the GPL
• [el] Greek translation of the GPL (PDF and TXT format)
• [he] Hebrew translation of the GPL
• [id] Indonesian translation of the GPL
• [it] Italian translation of the GPL
• [ja] Japanese translations of the GPL (1) (2)
• [ko] Korean translation of the GPL
• [lt] Lithuanian translation of the GPL
• [mk] Macedonian translation of the GPL
• [nn] Norwegian translation of the GPL
• [pl] Polish translation of the GPL
• [pt] Portuguese translation of the GPL
• [pt-br] Brazilian Portuguese translation of the GPL
• [ro] Romanian translation of the GPL
• [ru] Russian translations of the GPL (1) (2)
• [sr] Serbian translation of the GPL
• [es] Spanish translations of the GPL (1) (2 - four different translations) (3 - Spanish Mexican)
• [sv] Swedish translation of the GPL
• [th] Thai translation of the GPL
• [tr] Turkish translations of the GPL (1) (2)
• [uk] Ukranian translation of the GPL
• [vi] Vietnamese translation of the GPL
• [cy] Welsh translation of the GPL

The GNU Lesser General Public License

• [cn] Chinese (Simplified) translation of the LGPL
• [zh] Chinese (Traditional) translation of the LGPL
• [fr] French translation of the LGPL
• [de] German translation of the LGPL
• [it] Italian translation of the LGPL
• [ja] Japanese translation of the LGPL
• [ko] Korean translation of the LGPL
• [pl] Polish translations of the LGPL (1) (2)
• [ru] Russian translation of the LGPL
• [es] Spanish translation of the LGPL
• [tr] Turkish translations of the LGPL (1) (2)

The GNU Free Documentation License

Up-to-date translations (GFDL 1.2):

• [af] Afrikaans translation of the GFDL
• [ar] Arabic translation of the GFDL
• [ca] Catalan translation of the GFDL
• [cn] Chinese (Simplified) translation of the GFDL
• [zh] Chinese (Traditional) translation of the GFDL
• [nl] Dutch translation of the GFDL
• [fa] Farsi translation of the GFDL
• [de] German translation of the GFDL
• [he] Hebrew translation of the GFDL
• [ja] Japanese translation of the GFDL
• [ko] Korean translation of the GFDL
• [pl] Polish translation of the GFDL
• [pt-br] Portuguese (Brazilian) translation of the GFDL
• [ro] Romanian translation of the GFDL
• [es] Spanish translation of the GFDL (TXT, HTML, and XML format)
• [tg] Tajik translation of the GFDL
• [cy] Welsh translation of the GFDL

The translations below are based on version 1.1 of the GFDL; therefore they are not only unofficial, but also outdated. You can read about the changes between 1.1 and 1.2 in the main GFDL page.

• [fr] French translations of the GFDL (1) (2)
• [de] German translation of the GFDL
• [hi] Hindi translation of the GFDL
• [it] Italian translation of the GFDL
• [ko] Korean translation of the GFDL
• [pl] Polish translation of the GFDL
• [pt-br] Portuguese (Brazilian) translation of the GFDL
• [ru] Russian translation of the GFDL
• [es] Spanish translations of the GFDL (1) (2)