Remove overreaching citation notice Quoting the gpl-faq: . > Does the GPL allow me to add terms that would require citation or > acknowledgment in research papers which use the GPL-covered software or its > output? (#RequireCitation) > . > No, this is not permitted under the terms of the GPL. While we recognize > that proper citation is an important part of academic publications, > citation cannot be added as an additional requirement to the GPL. Requiring > citation in research papers which made use of GPL'd software goes beyond > what would be an acceptable additional requirement under section 7(b) of > GPLv3, and therefore would be considered an additional restriction under > Section 7 of the GPL. And copyright law does not allow you to place such a > requirement on the output of software, regardless of whether it is licensed > under the terms of the GPL or some other license. . Therefore, removing this to make parallel GPL-compliant.
While I agree with the GPL FAQ I found the following change inside the code while refreshing the patch: . # Before changing this line, please read # https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#Citation-notice # https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/citation-notice-faq.txt . Thus this patch is again up for discussion.
# You accept to be put in a public hall of shame by removing # these lines. before the code lines we change in a patch. Andreas Tille does not think that this kind of statements invalidate the right to change the code as it is granted by GPL and was discussed above.
Ian Turner <vectro@vectro.org> (for the documentation parts)
