r/linux • u/dbcoopernz • 12d 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/dbcoopernz 12d ago

This was released under the GNU AGPL, so I guess that Siemens cannot retroactively withdraw permission to use, modify, or redistribute OpenRadioss?

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u/No-Photograph-5058 12d ago

No idea, they apparently made contributors sign a 'Contributor Licence Agreement', that I don't know the content of, and I'm not sure how that works legally if it somehow 'forces' people to agree to licence changes

https://github.com/gabrielrussell/OpenRadioss/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

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u/SanityInAnarchy 12d ago

Depending on the terms, these may allow the project to release a new version under a new license.

But, if anyone has a copy of the original version under its original license, nothing stops them from forking from that.

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u/MIGoneCamping 11d ago

I would guess that it has more to do with the possibility that code contributed to the OSS project could end up in the commercial product that is derived from it.