Is liboss dead?

I found liboss in the ports and checked out the home page http://liboss.sourceforge.net/ . Is this project dead? From the home page I can get to OSS, which released the source under a BSD license. Is this new (the press release is dated January 4, 2008)? Has it been under a different license? What is the community feeling towards alsa and oss? How compatible are they? How incompatible? I have tried to compile asla on darwin/os X, no success. Michael