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kragenabout 3 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.

kragen22 minutes ago
jacquesmabout 3 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.
hackerfooabout 2 hours ago
I found this: https://github.com/QiangF/OpenRadioss_nolfs Here's an older one that fails because it needs LFS: https://github.com/Lucyants/OpenRadioss.git
hdrzabout 3 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?
diggernetabout 3 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.
puetzkabout 3 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).
kragenabout 3 hours ago
Yes, it can. Do you have a copy?
hdrzabout 3 hours ago
Probably, but not the last one, maybe from few months ago
CBLTabout 3 hours ago
> Some of us cared and contributed

Under a CLA.

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