Depends, if you mean to say that it's going to be replaced by things like the BSD or Apache license, then that's plausible.
But a full-on death for OSS is not going to happen.
The Creative Commons / Free Culture movement is fairly recent and only growing in popularity and it's easy to see how it dovetails with a lot of the FSFs work in software.
People (and very large corporations alike) are clearly still seeing the value in liberally licensing their works so that lots of people can enjoy them.
>Depends, if you mean to say that it's going to be replaced by things like the BSD or Apache license, then that's plausible.
That is precisely what I meant.
>But a full-on death for OSS is not going to happen.
That's ludicrous, not what I said, and not what I want. I would carry the torch all by my lonesome if that actually happened.
>The Creative Commons / Free Culture movement is fairly recent and only growing in popularity
I don't care about either/or. I care about software.
>People (and very large corporations alike) are clearly still seeing the value in liberally licensing their works so that lots of people can enjoy them.
Mostly as a means of marketing/promotion in the hopes that people will pay for the stuff that they can't steal outright. Don't kid yourself otherwise.
But a full-on death for OSS is not going to happen.
The Creative Commons / Free Culture movement is fairly recent and only growing in popularity and it's easy to see how it dovetails with a lot of the FSFs work in software.
People (and very large corporations alike) are clearly still seeing the value in liberally licensing their works so that lots of people can enjoy them.