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I've always wanted to pin down a vaguely-normative idea of whether the "actually you can't have this anymore" applies retroactively, or whether it would be legally defensible to go run off with the kernel releases that were made openly available a while back.

I think it was even MIT or BSD or similar?

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BSPs were a mix usually Apache or some more permissive license for common dev boards. They had something more limiting for the kernel. I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen a bootleg version of it floating around somewhere online.

They also had pretty liberal hobbyist/non-commercial license which let you learn the toolchain and develop with some of the middleware. That all went away when RIM (blackberry now) bought them.

Re: manuals - QNX Cookbook was also pretty good read. The documentation from that era were published as real books.

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