Altair Engineering

Developers associated with the Rocky Linux community have created OpenCourant, a community fork of the open-source crash simulation code OpenRadioss. The move comes in response to Siemens shutting down the four-year-old project, which was originally started by Altair Engineering and built around its Radioss solver. Commenters describe the shutdown as surprising and an unfortunate loss for the open engineering community.

OpenRadioss, the open-source crash and impact simulation code forked from Altair's Radioss, is at the centre of concerns that it may no longer remain truly open. Attention follows Siemens' Radioss product page, prompting developers and engineers to question the project's licensing and governance, and what the change means for anyone relying on the free solver in their simulation workflows.