Hi Dean,Gromacs is indeed GPL, but since I'm the author there too I can license StressCPU under different terms.
StressCPU is just a small hack that we've used to test our clusters before production, so you can consider it to be in the public domain, or X11/BSD if you really want a license. I'll try to update the code with some a license file.
It was a while ago that I wrote it, so from CPU-heating point-of-view I am no longer sure if there are alternatives that could run chips even hotter now. I've heard good things about SuperPi, but the reason we still stick to StressCPU is that it is not only heating the CPU, but also checking the results to look for heating-related problems.
Cheers, Erik On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:38 AM, dean gaudet wrote:
hi ...i'd like to propose adding stresscpu to a debian package... but there's nolicense specified in the files available from here: http://www.gromacs.org/contributed_by_users/task,doc_details/gid,14/i'm guessing since it's derived from gromacs and gromacs is GPL that thelicense is probably GPL... but could you possibly release it with an explicit license so the debian folks can package it? thanks! -deanp.s. alternately you can probably just respond with the license in emailand cc: 385792@bugs.debian.org so they have a record of your response.