After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
- In 2022 Altair Engineering open sourced "OpenRadioss", an industry-leading finite element solver under the GNU AGPL License, reports Phoronix. - Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year - Siemens closes access to OpenRadioss. "Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it,"…
In 2022, Altair Engineering made its industry-leading finite element solver, OpenRadioss, open source under the GNU AGPL License, according to Phoronix. However, Siemens, which acquired Altair Engineering the previous year, shut down the project and closed the associated GitHub repository in 2023. This move not only ended the open-source code but also removed other resources built around it, as reported by Phoronix.
Brian Clemens, founder and VP of Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, responded by launching a community fork of OpenRadioss, now called OpenCourant. OpenCourant will continue the OpenRadioss codebase under the GNU AGPL License, as announced on its website. Phoronix noted that OpenCourant is based on the last publicly known open-source OpenRadioss snapshot before Siemens shut it down.
However, OpenCourant faces a challenge with binary dependencies, as the repository removal occurred before the latest versions were available.
Additionally, Kagi announced that they would end the development of their Orion Browser for Linux and Windows. Despite this, Kagi plans to open-source both versions so other developers or organizations can maintain them. The story on this topic can be found at Slashdot.
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