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This is an excellent explanation of why "GNU finds this acceptable". Note that the citation message can also be easily silenced just by creating an empty file:

This is an excellent explanation of why "GNU finds this acceptable". Note that the citation message can also be easily silenced just by creating an empty file: touch ~/.parallel/will-cite

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kazinator 5y ago
Tools shouldn't be probing the file system for files not related to the job they are doing, period. The right way to do this is to patch the behavior out of the program, which you're entitled to do by its license. Or, rather by the fact that the license doesn't concern itself with use. That is covered in the FAQ: == I do not like the notice. Can I fork GNU Parallel and remove it? == Yes. GNU Parallel is released under GNU GPLv3 and thus you are allowed to fork the code. But you have to make sure that your forked version cannot be confused with the original, so for one thing you cannot call it anything similar to GNU Parallel as that would cause confusion between your forked version and the original. If you're not redistributing it, this doesn't apply to you; you're only using the program. I believe that a distro could get around this by providing a script a user can execute, or a patch that the user can apply that removes the nag code from the installation of GNU Parallel. Even if we take the view that the script creates a fork, it only creates a private one on the user's machine, and not anything that is redistributed; without distribution taking place, what is taking place is use.
- paskozdilar 5y ago
  > Tools shouldn't be probing the file system for files not related to the job they are doing, period. You're entitled to your preferences and your own fork of the GNU Parallel. I'll even help you out with that - all you need to do to remove the citation message is to comment out lines 1840-1843 in "src/parallel" file. Just please don't demand everyone else (i.e. distro maintainers) to stab the main developer in the back just to accommodate your preferences.

This is an excellent explanation of why "GNU finds this acceptable". Note that the citation message can also be easily silenced just by creating an empty file: touch ~/.parallel/will-cite

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kazinator 5y ago

Tools shouldn't be probing the file system for files not related to the job they are doing, period. The right way to do this is to patch the behavior out of the program, which you're entitled to do by its license. Or, rather by the fact that the license doesn't concern itself with use. That is covered in the FAQ: == I do not like the notice. Can I fork GNU Parallel and remove it? == Yes. GNU Parallel is released under GNU GPLv3 and thus you are allowed to fork the code. But you have to make sure that your forked version cannot be confused with the original, so for one thing you cannot call it anything similar to GNU Parallel as that would cause confusion between your forked version and the original. If you're not redistributing it, this doesn't apply to you; you're only using the program. I believe that a distro could get around this by providing a script a user can execute, or a patch that the user can apply that removes the nag code from the installation of GNU Parallel. Even if we take the view that the script creates a fork, it only creates a private one on the user's machine, and not anything that is redistributed; without distribution taking place, what is taking place is use.

paskozdilar 5y ago
> Tools shouldn't be probing the file system for files not related to the job they are doing, period. You're entitled to your preferences and your own fork of the GNU Parallel. I'll even help you out with that - all you need to do to remove the citation message is to comment out lines 1840-1843 in "src/parallel" file. Just please don't demand everyone else (i.e. distro maintainers) to stab the main developer in the back just to accommodate your preferences.