OpenRadioss is not open anymore

18 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by hdrz

19 Comments

kragen

10 hours ago

It looks like there are some AGPL copies on Software Heritage, such as https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory..., which mysteriously has gone missing from GitHub itself.

There are a few different open-source finite element solvers available, but I don't know enough about them to know what their strengths and weaknesses are. Coincidentally, over the last day, I've been vibecoding a multiphysics engine for sand battery design... on a grid rather than using FEM, although I'm starting to wonder if FEM would start to pay off at this point, because a thin fiberglass blanket around the outside of the sand battery seems to make a big difference, but reducing the grid grain to the thickness of the blanket would suck pretty bad.

jacquesm

10 hours ago

I hope someone still has a copy and can put it up on github. Siemens just gained themselves a place on my shitlist for this action and I sincerely hope the industry will call them out for it.

hdrz

10 hours ago

Until recently it was under AGPL. It was open sourced in 2022, and now siemens bought altair (the company who developed it for many years) and closed it again. Some of us cared and contributed, and now it’s gone… Maybe this can continue under another name using the last source release?

diggernet

10 hours ago

Looks like they've made https://github.com/OpenRadioss/OpenRadioss private to make that harder to do. But hopefully someone out there has a recent clone of the repo.

puetzk

9 hours ago

If you know when it was deleted, you should be able to find the last-pushed hashes in https://www.gharchive.org/, and then can likely still fetch those hashes via any surviving fork - even if it doesn't look up-to-date (since github commingles the actual pack storage underneath forks).

kragen

10 hours ago

Yes, it can. Do you have a copy?

CBLT

10 hours ago

> Some of us cared and contributed

Under a CLA.

jacquesm

8 hours ago

kragen

7 hours ago

I tried half a dozen from the list you found, since you didn't bother to mention which of them were still alive, and https://github.com/AxelHaenschke/OpenRadioss was the only one that showed up, and it seems to have some updates from a couple of months ago. I've put a copy up at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/OpenRadioss.git. You should be able to clone it from there in about 30 seconds, but be aware it's 176 megs.

jacquesm

5 hours ago

Yes, apologies, I had something a lot more urgent to do but still made the time to dig up the info and post the link. You're welcome.