Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> writes:
>> @author is a TeX command and goes into the printed version. For >> translation, we'd need a separate directive, I think, since a >> translator is not the author. Again, this is something for the >> Texinfo folks to handle. > > Legally speaking a translator is an author. Depending on the > jurisdiction (Anglo-Saxon right vs EU right for ex.), the translator > hold full copyright on the translation, unless it was a work for hire, > etc. That’s why there are contracts between publishing houses and > translators to allow or not the use of the translation is such and such > format. I am not an IP lawyer, but I know what’s written in the > contracts I’ve signed. Legally, and morally too. Translation work should be credited just the same as we do other work. But I think Eli's point was that we might need a separate directive like @translator for that, and that this should be handled by the Texinfo developers.
