GoKawiilRocky Linux founder forks OpenRadioss as OpenCourant after Siemens shutdown
Siemens, which acquired Altair Engineering last year, shut down the OpenRadioss GitHub repository and removed related resources, ending public access to the open-source finite element solver. Brian Clemens, founder of Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, has launched a community fork called OpenCourant, based on the last known public snapshot of the code and continuing under the GNU AGPLv3 license.
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Siemens says the closure reflects a consolidation of efforts to better support production-grade simulation, according to its own statement, though it did not elaborate on what prompted the repository removal itself. The fork suggests a segment of the user and developer community wants to preserve open access regardless of Siemens' plans, though missing binary dependencies from before the shutdown could complicate OpenCourant's ability to fully replicate the original project.
- Siemens shut down the OpenRadioss GitHub repo and resources after acquiring Altair Engineering.
- Rocky Linux founder Brian Clemens launched OpenCourant, a fork preserving the AGPLv3-licensed codebase.
- OpenCourant faces technical hurdles due to missing binary dependencies from before the shutdown.
Source: news.slashdot.org — Posted, 2026-10-05
Published there as: “After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork”
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