David-
Erik's description of the agreement isn't
clear. Are we obligated to
cite EU Observer or do we just agree to cite them? If they put the text
in the public domain, we obviously don't _have_ to do anything, but I
can see how agreeing to cite them is nice. If so, I don't think _our_
agreeing to cite them has any bearing on further uses of Wikipedia content.
Well, if we don't cite them, they will simply cancel the agreement, and no
further news summaries will be released to the public domain.
This sounds like a welcome agreement. Like a lot of handshake
agreements it is based on the good-faith behaviour of the parties. A
simple attribution showing "Originally based on ..." shouldn't be a
problem. I suspect that only a small number of Wikipedians will be
doing the actual copying work anyway, and they would know the understanding.
Agreements of this sort are not based on developing a whole lot of
bureaucratic rules that need to be followed to the letter and enforced.
Ec