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 Debian maintainers reviewed the citation notice as implemented T> in parallel and viewed it to be in violation of GPLv3, and patched T> it out, renaming from “GNU parallel” to “parallel”. Arch Linux and T> OpenSUSE have also patched out the citation notice. Summary of T> other distros stance here: T> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/110584#issuecomment-766158970. And they thereby make it harder for me to justify spending time on development. If they feel the citation notice violates GPLv3 (and they thus disagree with RMS), then the fair thing would be to assume the author's intentions are correct, and that the software is mis-licensed. If this would cause it to be moved to non-free, then that would be fine by me. Instead they did what suited *them* better, and thereby made it harder to finance development long term. If you want more free software to be developed, then going against the developers' wishes sends a pretty bad signal to would-be developers. I cannot say it better than Nadia Eghbal in https://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/consider-the-maintainer: "Is it alright to compromise, or even deliberately ignore, the happiness of maintainers so we that can enjoy free and open source software?" >> I have yet to come across a journal, that restricts citations to 50: T> Nature restricts to 30, or up to 50 T> (https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/initial-submission). I think you misinterpret those. They are guidelines. Not restrictions. This proof with 67 references (one of them being GNU Parallel) was also included in my previous email: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65360-y A more convincing argument would be a rejection letter from a journal. But even if there was a restriction, you could simply use an alternative or build your own. No one forces you to use GNU Parallel. I hope we agree that our long term goal is to have more free software developed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779764 Title: GNU Parallel is nagware To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parallel/+bug/1779764/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
