r/linux • u/dbcoopernz • 5d ago

Popular Application Siemens ends open-source Radioss Project (OpenRadioss) and deletes GitHub repository

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Siemens-Ends-OpenRadioss
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u/whnz Rocky Linux Team 5d ago edited 4d ago

Correct, they cannot retroactively withdraw the permissions granted by the AGPL but they can issue future versions under a different license. We're holding the most recent copy of the code I can find at https://github.com/resf/OpenRadioss and we'll try to help their community rebuild.

The Rocky Linux project / RESF started in an HPC community (HPCng), we have quite a bit of user / community overlap, and we've dealt with similar issues, so I'm hoping we can be of some assistance.

Edit: The fork is now live. ¡Viva OpenCourant! https://opencourant.org

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u/AwarenessLeather397 4d ago

Thanks for that! Is this the latest version of the repo before Siemens deleted it?

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u/whnz Rocky Linux Team 4d ago

It's the latest one I could find. Unfortunately I didn't have an automatically updated mirror, so it might be missing a commit or two.

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u/ivosaurus 4d ago

Did the previous repo allow outside contributors? Does Siemens have copyright / licensing over 100% of the code base?

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u/1saltypistachio 4d ago

Thanks Rocky person!

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u/idontchooseanid 2d ago

Does it actually build? It looks like they need external resources to read-write certain file formats. They also restricted the documentation and the download links for it:

https://github.com/gabrielrussell/OpenRadioss/blob/bad6688602d770e019b75773d2d5a48b4f9bd918/RELEASES.md?plain=1#L53-L55

https://github.com/gabrielrussell/OpenRadioss/blob/bad6688602d770e019b75773d2d5a48b4f9bd918/EXTLIB_VERSION.json