Does any distro keep that in their packages?
If and when I ever write an academic peer-reviewed paper that heavily relies on GNU Parallel as part of my data processing pipeline, I'd be happy to give it a two-line citation. Until that happens, the `--will-cite` flag silences the error message. So does the patch that disables the message (this is GNU after all :)
Imagine if the author of 'cp' or 'bash' had the same attitude...
==== "If you use '--will-cite' in scripts you are expected to pay\n", "the 10000 EUR, because you are making it harder to see the\n", "citation notice. ====