SPEC CPU®2017 Licenses

$Id: licenses.html 6663 2022-08-27 16:56:36Z JohnHenning $ Latest: www.spec.org/cpu2017/Docs/

Contents

Introduction to the SPEC CPU 2017 License Agreement

Freely-redistributable sources

Note 1: Licenses and bug reporting

Note 2: about "BSD" licenses

Benchmarks

SPEC CPU 2017 Tools

Introduction to the SPEC CPU®2017 License Agreement

SPEC CPU®2017 is a product of the SPEC® non-profit corporation (about SPEC). The SPEC CPU 2017 source code and tools are provided under a SPEC License Agreement(PDF format). The license contains the terms and conditions of your agreement with SPEC. Read it carefully before using the product. A copy is also on your distribution media, in the Docs/licenses/ directory.

The following points are not a substitute for that License Agreement, but may be helpful as an introduction:

Freely-redistributable sources

SPEC gratefully acknowledges the many free and open source software contributions that are used in SPEC CPU 2017.

Note 1: Licenses and bug reporting

In the table below, several benchmarks are marked as using the GNU GPL. For each, SPEC's updated sources are available in the ISO image for your copy of SPEC CPU 2017, in a compressed tar file underneath redistributable_sources/modified.

One possible use for modified sources is for bug reporting. If you wish to provide an entire benchmark to a compiler developer, generally you are not allowed to do so, unless the developer also has a license for SPEC CPU 2017. The exception is for the GPL benchmarks: for those, you may, if you wish to do so, pass along the tarball from redistributable_sources/modified. In that situation, please note that:

Note 2: about "BSD" licenses

SPEC tried to track down all software license references within all files in SPEC CPU 2017. Many modules were found with BSD (or similar) licenses. Copyrights for such modules must be acknowledged in the documentation if they are shipped in binary form. Separate acknowledgment is not required if they ship as source code (which is how SPEC CPU 2017 ships).

Nevertheless, having identified these modules, it seems only courteous to acknowledge them -- even if not legally required. Most are acknowledged in this document, with the exception of BSD contributions to 526.blender, which are in an Appendix, because there are so many.

When considering BSD licenses, one should be careful not to confuse "acknowledgment" with "advertising". To the best of SPEC's knowledge, no BSD-licensed materials in SPEC CPU 2017 require advertisement. (Only one source file in SPEC CPU 2017 mentions such a clause, and that file is copyright by Berkeley, who have explicitly disclaimed the requirement.)

Benchmarks

The table lists redistributable sources used by benchmarks, and the license or licenses that apply to them.

Benchmark Archive name License(s)
500.perlbench_r
600.perlbench_s
perl-5.22.1.tar.xz Perl Artistic License
HTML-Parser-3.71.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
IO-stringy-2.110.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0.tar.bz2 (*) Apache License, version 2.0
MailTools-2.13.tar.gz (*) Perl Artistic License
MHonArc-2.6.19.tar.bz2 (*) GNU GPL, version 2
TimeDate-2.30.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
mt19937ar.sep.tgz [description] BSD License

(*) Items marked with an asterisk do not provide any components linked into the benchmark executable. They are only part of the runtime workload.

The benchmark includes:

  • Components originally copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California and/or Constantin S. Svintsoff, available under the BSD license (within PathTools and File::Glob).
  • Code derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, available under the Perl Artistic License (see Digest/MD5.pm).
  • Unicode components, available under the Unicode license.

mt19937ar.sep.tgz is the Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator with period 2^19937-1, Copyright 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura; Copyright 2005, Mutsuo Saito. The source includes a BSD license. It is used in specrand.c, which is used by several benchmarks.

502.gcc_r
602.gcc_s
gcc-4.5.0.tar.xz GNU GPL, version 3
gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz GNU LGPL, version 3
qsort.c [description] BSD License

The source directory includes xatexit.c Copyright (c) 1990 Regents of the University of California; see the BSD License.

qsort.c is used by several benchmarks to improve consistency. It is from https://svn.FreeBSD.org/base/head/lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c, Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 The Regents of the University of California, and on your distribution media in directory
redistributable_sources/original/common/spec_qsort/

503.bwaves_r 603.bwaves_s Blast Waves was contributed by a SPEC member company.
505.mcf_r
605.mcf_s
msinttypes...zip [description] BSD License
qsort.c [description] BSD License

MCF is licensed directly to SPEC by Dr. Andreas Löbel, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB).

Several benchmarks, under BSD license, use the Microsoft Windows versions of inttypes.h and/or stdint.h from msinttypes-f9e7c5758ed9e3b9f4b2394de1881c704dd79de0.zip, posted at redistributable_sources/original/ and Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Alexander Chemeris.

507.cactuBSSN_r
607.cactuBSSN_s
CactusBSSN.tgz GNU GPL, version 2
508.namd_r NAMD is licensed directly to SPEC by the University of Illinois.
510.parest_r

PAREST is licensed directly to SPEC by the author, Wolfgang Bangerth.

Note: Therefore, source code references to other terms under which the program may be available are not relevant for the SPEC CPU 2017 version.

The source directory includes files from BOOST, used under the terms of the Boost Software License.

511.povray_r spec-3.7.tar.xz GNU Affero GPL, version 3
qsort.c [description] BSD License
POV-Ray was submitted to SPEC by one of its developers, Thorsten Froehlich, under the GNU Affero GPL, version 3
519.lbm_r
619.lbm_s
LBM is licensed directly to SPEC by the author, Thomas Pohl.
520.omnetpp_r
620.omnetpp_s

OMNeT++ is licensed directly to SPEC by OpenSim Ltd.

Note: Therefore, source code references to other terms under which the program may be available are not relevant for the SPEC CPU 2017 version.

Under a BSD license, the benchmark uses a version of the Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator that differs somewhat from the version in mt19937ar.sep.tgz. The version in omnetpp is used under a BSD license, Copyright 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura; Copyright 2000 - 2003, Richard J. Wagner.

521.wrf_r
621.wrf_s
netcdf-3.6.0-p1.tar.xz Free use; see netcdf-3.6.0.license
cfortran.h.license

WRF is licensed directly to SPEC by UCAR.

Note: Therefore, source code references to other terms under which the program may be available are not relevant for the SPEC CPU 2017 version.

The benchmark uses mpif.h, Copyright 2001 by Argonne National Laboratory, under the MCT license.

523.xalancbmk_r
623.xalancbmk_s
Xalan-C++ was submitted to SPEC by a member company, using the Apache License, version 2.0
525.x264_r
625.x264_s
x264-snapshot-20090515-2245.tar.bz2 GNU GPL, version 2
pstdint.h BSD (Paul Hsieh)

X264 is contributed to SPEC by VideoLAN under the GNU GPL, version 2

Input files named 'BuckBunny.264' are derived from the sources for Big Buck Bunny from the Blender Foundation (peach.blender.org) and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

The decoder 'ldecod' is from the H.264/AVC reference software implementation with an ITU copyright and disclaimer. SPEC previously used H.264/AVC by permission in SPEC CPU 2006 (464.h264ref).

526.blender_r blender_20141028_48529.tar.xz GNU GPL, version 3
freetype-2.5.4.tar.bz2 GNU GPL, version 3
libpng-1.5.10.tar.xz Free use; see libpng license
msinttypes...zip [description] BSD License
mt19937ar.sep.tgz [description] BSD License
zlib-1.2.6.tar.bz2 Free use; see the zlib license

Blender was contributed to SPEC CPU 2017 by the Blender Foundation, under the terms of GNU GPL, version 3. Other redistributable sources added by SPEC are listed above. In addition, it should be noted that:

  • 15 source files in 526.blender_r/src/blender/source/gameengine/Expressions are Copyright 1996-2000 Erwin Coumans and are acknowledged per the terms in the source files.
  • 13 header files in 526.blender_r/src/include are from the Independent JPEG Group's software. In accordance with its license, this paragraph serves as notification that the software has been modified: none of the executable code is present, only header files. The header files have not been changed.
  • 526.blender/src/blender/extern/glew/include/GL/glxew.h defines certain datatypes via excerpts from four X11 headers, in accordance with their terms.
  • Many files available under BSD license are listed in an appendix.
527.cam4_r
627.cam4_s
cesm1_0_2.tar.xz Public Domain, except as noted in the CESM license
netcdf-3.6.0-p1.tar.xz Free use; see netcdf-3.6.0.license
cfortran.h.license
qsort.c [description] BSD License

The ESMF files within 527.cam4 are marked as GPL. That marking may be obsolete, and it is possible that the Illinois NCSA license applies instead. In any case, SPEC's version is available at directory redistributable_sources/modified/.

The benchmark uses 4 source files for list handling, copyright UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO; see MCT_license.

The copyright holders below have contributed code under BSD (or similar) licenses, and their contributions are gratefully acknowledged.

  • "British Crown, the Met Office.": 10 files related to cosp; plus include/congvec.h and scops.F90.
  • "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique": lidar_simulator.F90 and lmd_ipsl_stats.F90.
  • "Lawrence Livermore National Security Limited Liability Corporation": icarus.F90, llnl_stats.F90, pf_to_mr.F90, and prec_scops.F90.
  • "Regents of the Unversity of Colorado Author: Robert Pincus, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences" cosp_modis_simulator.F90, and modis_simulator.F90.
  • "Roger Marchand, version 1.2": MISR_simulator.F90.
531.deepsjeng_r
631.deepsjeng_s
Deep Sjeng is licensed directly to SPEC by the author, Gian-Carlo Pascutto
538.imagick_r
638.imagick_s
ImageMagick-6.8.9-1.tar.xz Free use; see ImageMagick license
541.leela_r
641.leela_s

Leela is licensed directly to SPEC by the author, Gian-Carlo Pascutto

The source directory includes files from BOOST, used under the terms of the Boost Software License.

544.nab_r
644.nab_s
AmberTools12.tar.xz GNU GPL, version 3
regex-alpha3.8p1.tar.gz Free use; see Spencer regexp license
mt19937ar.sep.tgz [description] BSD License
548.exchange2_r
648.exchange2_s
exchange2 is licensed directly to SPEC by the author, Michael Metcalf.
549.fotonik3d_r
649.fotonik3d_s
Fotonik3D is licensed directly to SPEC by the author, Ulf Andersson
554.roms_r
654.roms_s
ROMS3.2_405.tar.xz Free use; see ROMS license
Note: although netcdf is mentioned in the source, the benchmark as used does not actually require it, and the directory netcdf/ is not present.
557.xz_r
657.xz_s
xz-5.0.5.tar.bz2 Public Domain XZ Utils
pxz-ae808463....tar.xz GNU GPL, version 2
msinttypes...zip [description] BSD License
cld.tar.xz GNU GPL, version 2

cld.tar.xz is a set of virus signatures from Clam/AV, which are compressed during the run.

The XZ Utils License says that liblzma is in the Public Domain, but notes that this may not be true after you are done linking an executable.

628.pop2_s cesm1_0_2.tar.xz See POP2 license
Public Domain, except as noted in the CESM license
netcdf-3.6.0-p1.tar.xz Free use; see netcdf-3.6.0.license
cfortran.h.license

The ESMF files within 628.pop2 are marked as GPL. That marking may be obsolete, and it is possible that the Illinois NCSA license applies instead. In any case, SPEC's version is available at directory redistributable_sources/modified/.

The benchmark uses 4 source files for list handling, copyright UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO; see MCT_license.

996.specrand_fs
997.specrand_fr
998.specrand_is
999.specrand_ir
mt19937ar.sep.tgz [description] BSD License

SPEC CPU 2017 Tools

The following table lists the tools components, their associated archive or archives, as well as the license or licenses that apply to them:

Archive name License(s)
perl-5.24.0.tar.xz Perl Artistic License
Algorithm-Diff-1.1903.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
Core14_AFMs.tar.xz [Core14 Notes] Adobe Core 14 license
Exporter-Tiny-0.042.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
File-NFSLock-1.27.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
Font-AFM-1.20.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
Font-TTF-1.05.tar.gz Perl Artistic License, v2
Test suite fonts: SIL Open Font License v1.1
HTML-Table-2.08a.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
IO-String-1.08.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
IO-stringy-2.111.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
List-MoreUtils-0.416.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
MIME-tools-5.507.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
MailTools-2.14.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
PDF-API2-2.025.tar.gz GNU LGPL, version 2.1
SVG-2.64.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
String-ShellQuote-1.04.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
Test-Deep-0.119.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
Text-CSV_XS-1.20.tgz Perl Artistic License
TimeDate-2.30.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
URI-1.69.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
XML-NamespaceSupport-1.11.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
XML-SAX-0.99.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
XML-SAX-Base-1.08.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
XML-SAX-ExpatXS-1.33.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
XSLoader-0.22.tar.gz Perl Artistic License
coreutils-8.24.tar.xz GNU GPL, version 3 or later
expat-2.1.0.tar.gz MIT License
filepp-1.8.0.tar.gz GNU GPL, version 2 or later
make-4.2.1.tar.bz2 GNU GPL, version 3 or later
makedepf90-2.8.8.tar.gz GNU GPL, version 2
Parts of SPEC PTD Public Domain / BSD
rxp-1.5.0.tar.gz [RXP notes] University of Edinburgh GPL
W3C software license
Unicode Character Database terms
OASIS XML Catalog copyright
tar-1.28.tar.xz GNU GPL, version 3 or later
xz-5.2.2.tar.xz Public Domain: XZ Utils license
GNU LGPL, version 2.1
zsh.zip Free use; see ZSH license

Adobe Core 14 Notes

The text version of the Adobe Font Metrics license has been modified to include only the visible content from the original

MustRead.html

The modifications, although invisible, are nevertheless prominently noted, as is required.
A pointer is also included to the unmodified original.
(One cannot help but wonder if the inclusion of invisible ink was a little test?)

RXP notes

SPEC CPU®2017 Licenses: Copyright © 2017-2020 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®)