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It's unusual aberrant behavior for an official GNU project to have its default behavior be printing a banner asking for citations and $30,000 cheques for just o
by jart 7y ago
It's unusual aberrant behavior for an official GNU project to have its default behavior be printing a banner asking for citations and $30,000 cheques for just one guy. You don't speak for Richard Stallman. I'm sure once this is brought to the attention of the right folks at GNU, the situation will be addressed appropriately. All the other GNU tools I've seen use the startup message to plug the movement as a whole, and explain how its principles benefit you as a user.
- eesmith 7y agoI infer that you didn't follow the link after "More about funding GNU Parallel and the citation notice:" to https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#Citation-notice https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#C... where the GNU parallel documentation says: "As the request for citation is not a legal requirement this is acceptable under GPLv3 and cleared with Richard M. Stallman himself." That is why I wrote 'Surely Stallman knows them better than you or I, and he is not opposed.' Not because I'm trying to "speak for" Stallman, but because I trust Ole Tange is not lying by writing that in the documentation. That also why I'm sure that this has been "brought to the attention of the right folks at GNU". If not, that lie has been around for years, with no one catching it. Why are you so sure it will be otherwise?