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I didn't want to open that can of worms: "If you use ChainForge for research purposes, or build upon the source code, we ask that you cite this project in any related publications. The BibTeX you can use for now is.."

That's outside of the MIT licence as far as I'm concerned

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I think that's the wrong end of the stick. When you publish research, the software you used/built on is part of the methods and needs to be cited. The authors are doing you a courtesy by providing a pasteable citation.

Similar "we would appreciate citations" statement for (BSD-licensed) pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/about/citing.html

8000+ pubs citing pandas: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9876954816936339312

It says "we ask", not "you have to". I'd say it's open to interpretation that this is an informal request and not legally binding. Also I do want to open the can of worms and say that whoever doesn't even have the respect to include a citation on request when using someone else's work should just write everything themselves.

Hi! I’m one of the great students working on this. This is merely a request to get more visibility. It will also help us get more grants. We don’t have any intention of restricting the “openness” of it.

Awesome, thank you!

If I called it truly open source I half expected to get shot down.

I know where we stand now :)

Y'all sure are some great students! ;)

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