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Comment by LeoPanthera | Hacker News Reader

Any discussion about GNU Parallel inevitably degrades into complaints about the requirements for "--will-cite".

Removing that requirement is a two line patch:

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Why not simply do as GNU Parallel suggests in the message:

Run 'parallel --citation' ONCE and have the notice silenced.

I never understood the complaint: Is it because people do not _read_ the message?

There is no such requirement. If you read the text you'll see that author explains that's their only income source, so they ask you to consider citing them in your paper. It is an entirely reasonable thing for a software engineer to ask from their users.

> It is an entirely reasonable thing for a software engineer to ask from their users.

It's also a reasonable thing for a user of free software to modify the software and improve it by removing this kind of garbage.

Or, instead of a two line patch with codes, you could just type one line: “parallel --will-cite”

There are not citation requirements, as per the GPL. The text that the tool prints without --will-cite is merely a strongly-worded request.

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