Quote from the article:
"...what the company is doing might not be legal, since its software works by “scraping” content from other Web sites. But McCue insists there is no problem because Flipboard displays only a small part of an article, not the entire thing, and then embeds a link that takes a reader to the original."
But I'm not sure if this is true. Scraping is scraping, regardless whether or not you link to it.
In the last paragraph you can find this though "Flipboard hasn’t worked out a business model yet, but plans to put ads next to articles and then share some advertising revenue with publishers." Which indicates they do acknowledge the publishers for the content and want to share (potential) revenues with those publishers.
I would add Facebook, which is more around the same model as Flipboard in that context: when you share a link on Facebook, it grabs the content to present a nice snippet with a picture, title and summary.
But I'm not sure if this is true. Scraping is scraping, regardless whether or not you link to it.
In the last paragraph you can find this though "Flipboard hasn’t worked out a business model yet, but plans to put ads next to articles and then share some advertising revenue with publishers." Which indicates they do acknowledge the publishers for the content and want to share (potential) revenues with those publishers.