FOSS Force’s Christine Hall reports that the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation forked the discontinued OpenRadioss finite element solver as OpenCourant after Siemens pulled the project’s code from GitHub in an apparent attempt to make it hard to fork, keeping the fork under the GNU AGPL v3. Brian Clemens announced the fork the same day Phoronix reported the shutdown, and the project recovered a proprietary input-reader library that was never kept in git after a community member came forward with an archived package that was verified against an independently recovered binary, restoring builds for Linux x86-64, Linux arm64 and Windows x86-64, though one reader function remains missing on every platform and the team is asking anyone with an August or September 2026 OpenRadioss package to check.
Rocky Linux Rescues OpenRadioss From Siemens' Dumpster
FOSS Force's Christine Hall reports that the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation forked the discontinued OpenRadioss finite element solver as OpenCourant after Siemens pulled the project's code from GitHub in an apparent attempt to make it hard to fork, keeping the fork under the GNU AGPL v3. Brian Clemens announced the fork the same day Phoronix reported the shutdown, and the project recovered a proprietary input-reader library that was never kept in git after a community member came forward with an archived package that was verified against an independently recovered binary, restoring builds for Linux x86-64, Linux arm64 and Windows x86-64, though one reader function remains missing on every platform and the team is asking anyone with an August or September 2026 OpenRadioss package to check.
Source: FOSS Force