[WikiEN-l] Cooperation with EUobserver

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com
Mon Sep 29 16:49:23 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:45, Gareth Owen wrote:
> erik_moeller at gmx.de (Erik Moeller) writes:
> 
> > 1) EUObserver.com agrees to put the text of the first paragraph of each
> > story in the public domain. That paragraph usually provides a good summary
> > of the story.
> > 
> > 2) We agree to cite EUOBserver.com as a source for each of these copied
> > summaries (as we already do with all stories reported on "Current
> > events").
> 
> Aren't those two paragraphs contradictory?
> 
> Either way, as I understand it, unless we're declaring the credit to
> EUOBserver as an invariant section, paragraph 2 is not GFDL compatible.

Citing your sources is not incompatible with the GFDL!

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)



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