T> The issue is that the software is licensed as GPLv3, and the GPLv3
T> does not permit this notice: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-
T> faq.en.html#RequireCitation
RMS disagrees with you. See the FAQ:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/citation-notice-
faq.txt#n27
T> The
The issue is that the software is licensed as GPLv3, and the GPLv3 does
not permit this notice: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-
faq.en.html#RequireCitation
The Debian maintainers reviewed the citation notice as implemented in
parallel and viewed it to be in violation of GPLv3, and patched it out
T> The requirement to type "will cite" has always bothered me a bit.
And I agree: It is not ideal.
You can read the background in the FAQ:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/citation-notice-faq.txt
T> I must use literally thousands of software packages in my
(biosciences) re
** Changed in: parallel (Debian)
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
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Title:
GNU Parallel is nagware
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The requirement to type "will cite" has always bothered me a bit. I must
use literally thousands of software packages in my (biosciences)
research, and only only "GNU parallel" does this nag. For example, I use
parallel to launch multiple copies of a file conversion software. It is
not customary in
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: parallel (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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"Is it alright to compromise or even deliberately ignore the happiness
of the maintainers so that we can enjoy free and open source software?"
(Slide 8 from: https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-
maintainer)
I feel sad that you completely ignore the key issue: Long term funding
of
The nagging approach is not appropriate for general-use software
distributions like Ubuntu. Ubuntu should remove the citation stuff from
the code base, and rename the package if necessary to accomplish that.
Problems with the citation requests in GNU Parallel have been widely discussed
elsewhere,
Funding a free software project is hard. GNU parallel is no exception.
On top of that it seems the less visible a project is, the harder it is
to get funding. And the nature of GNU Parallel is that it will never be
seen by "the guy with the checkbook", but only by the people doing the
actual work.
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