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by eru 5466 days ago
Won't you get a citation, whenever somebody uses your code?
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Typically a review paper describing the software is what is actually cited, but yes!

For instance, in my department there is a guy who maintains an astrophysical software package called Cloudy. The faq[1] describes how to cite it. (Unlike a lot of the software mentioned here, that project actually is open source, uses version control, and was migrated from the original Fortran to C++.)

[1]http://www.nublado.org/wiki/FaqPage