Hello,
I already have the first Witcher game and I would like to gift the free copy for the Gwent newsletter to a friend of mine, is it possible?

Yes, it is possible. Follow the instructions to claim your free copy and, because you already own it account, you'll instead get a key on your orders and settings page that you can give to your friend.

Looks like we can't access our accounts on the website at the moment - I imagine that means the web dev staff are deploying some changes (hopefully bringing back forum notifications). If that link doesn't work for you then wait an hour or so and try again.

Does this procedure work even if i own a Steam copy of the game?

......Steam sells Steam keys, GOG sells GOG keys. You should have connected when it was on offer. Now since you do not have a copy here, it will automatically go into your account, so not giftable. Sorry about this.

Then you should redeem your backup copy here first - https://www.gog.com/witcher/backup

I thought I knew there was a way. Good job triock!

Did you click triock's link? There it is explained.

This is the future that GOG is catering to. *SMDH*

https://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher_2/getting_your_key_from_steam/post3

Thank you for the help, it worked.

:-)