OpenCourant fork of OpenRadioss becomes first RESF incubator project

The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) has accepted OpenCourant as its first incubator project. OpenCourant is a fork of OpenRadioss, an open-source finite element solver for crash and impact simulation that Siemens discontinued on October 1, 2026. The fork preserves the full Git commit history and remains under AGPLv3. RESF incubation provides vendor-neutral governance mentorship, with graduation requiring multi-organizational committers, documented release processes, and resolved trademark questions.

What RESF incubation requires

• OpenCourant forks the last public OpenRadioss codebase after Siemens removed the GitHub repository without archive on October 1, 2026
• Full commit history retained to preserve contributor attribution
• CI infrastructure moved to project-controlled systems; stable packages now published
• AGPLv3 license maintained with tracked code provenance required for graduation
• Graduation criteria: community governance model, multi-organizational active committers, documented repeatable release process, AGPLv3 compliance, resolved naming/trademark issues
• Quarterly board reporting required during incubation

Why it matters

The RESF's expansion beyond Rocky Linux into project incubation tests whether its governance model can attract and sustain diverse open-source infrastructure. For engineering software specifically, OpenCourant offers a path to preserve AGPL-licensed simulation tools outside single-vendor control.