Control: severity -1 minor Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Marc Lehmann <debian-report...@plan9.de> wrote: > I have a script that uses gnu parallel. I am already used to the nagware > notice that asks me to cite it in my academic work with bogus claims about > how this is academic tradition (it isn't) and telling me for money we can > forget about academic integrity. > > This is annoying, but let's chalk this down to an idiosyncratic author and > hey, I am not easy either, right? (...)
You probably saw this behavior already, but please, if after you've used the --citation option you still see problems, please let me know. Otherwise, I fail to see what problems you could have with the initial setup of the program. I use GNU parallel daily and I have no problems running it in scripts. In the worst case, simply do: mkdir ~/.parallel touch ~/.parallel/will-cite It will make parallel silent forever from that point on. (...) > At this point the program stops and basically asks me to lie - I can't > cite it because I am not even preparing a paper that could contain > citations, so why should I enter "will cite"? That's not true. Your promise is not a lie (unless you intend not to cite---but it is also your right to lie to a Free Software program, as in Stallman's "Freedom 0"). I know that you know this, but it is simply vacuously true: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth>. Let P be the statement "I write an academic paper" and Q be "I will cite GNU parallel correctly". Then, P => Q is vacuously true and you haven't lied. (...) > I am a bit doubtful, but even if it is, I think it's pretty > unethical for debian to make these kinds of demands, and therefore, the > simplest way to fix it would be to remove this nagware code altogether. You can do that. I don't intend to patch the upstream code with a patch here in Debian, unless you elaborate a bit more to convince me. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
