Comment 6 for bug 1779764

The requirement to type "will cite" has always bothered me a bit. I must use literally thousands of software packages in my (biosciences) research, and only only "GNU parallel" does this nag. For example, I use parallel to launch multiple copies of a file conversion software. It is not customary in my field to cite the file conversion software even though this is essential to the research at hand, and parallel is a (very welcome! much appreciated!) convenience with a time-saving contribution. Many journals restrict citations to the <50 most pertinent, and one never sees Matlab or Python making the cut in a biology journal. It would be crazy noise to have 10,000 citations in a paper on the entire software dependency chain.

It is a bit irksome to type "will cite" when knowing that 1) it's not a contract & not actually required, and 2) it's not true.