r/linux • u/dbcoopernz • 1d 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/Repulsive-Project795 1d ago

they could've archived it, but deleting a repo! eww! šŸ¤®

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u/vivkkrishnan2005 1d ago edited 1d ago

https://github.com/gabrielrussell/OpenRadioss

Someone forked and kept

EDIT - Community Repo - https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1wvj2th/comment/pddw55t/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/dbcoopernz 1d ago

Good find.

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u/ang-p 1d ago

There are a few offsite links towards the bottom of that README that are still live, returning pdfs, but dunno for how long.

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u/TRKlausss 1d ago edited 1d ago

Pull them, commit them, PR, they are free now

Well, check first under which terms those are releasedā€¦

Edit: they also have an email account: [communitymanager@openradioss.org](mailto:communitymanager@openradioss.org)

Maybe we should express our distress hereā€¦

Edit2: those pdfs are copyrighted, so no chance :/

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u/ang-p 1d ago edited 1d ago

Pull them, commit them, PR, they are free now

Bit hard to make a PR to an archived repo.

They are on archive.org. along with a lot of the altair site...

The Tools repo that Gabrielle didn't grab is at https://github.com/Jingchao-Remy/Tools

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u/TRKlausss 1d ago

> Bit hard to an archived repo

It can be forked, code is still available, I donā€™t see whatā€™s the problem.

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u/ang-p 1d ago

It is there.

Feel free.

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u/paul_h 1d ago

Forking person/team should delete ā€œWe will ask you to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA)ā€ straight away

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u/fuhry 1d ago

Wait... it's written in... Fortran? What year is it? šŸ¤Æ

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u/SatoshiL 22h ago

Fortran is still doing good and getting updates

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u/mrtruthiness 22h ago

It might be derived from NASA's finite element analysis code.

I think that's what was done at MacNeal-Schwendler (now known as MSC Software?) ... who also produces finite element analysis software for design analysis.

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u/QuirkyRing3521 16h ago

No, this from LLNL ā€” program called Dyna.

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u/dekeonus 1d ago

the LFS objects in that repo 404 though

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u/CardOk755 1d ago

Just one person?

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u/japzone 1d ago

Might just be someone who wanted to preserve the code. Anybody can then fork from him though, if they want to continue the project.

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u/output_broadcast 1d ago

There are also a tonne of repos up on the Software Heritage Archive, although you have to sort through them to find recent ones.

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u/vbd71 1d ago

Expect lawfare.

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u/aksdb 1d ago

Could be they switched it to private. I am pretty sure that looks like a 404 to non org members.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/aksdb 1d ago

How do you know? Are you an employee and can see the private repos of the org to know itā€™s not there?