Are you a lawyer? USA law recognizes promissory estoppel, European laws provide protection by the good faith principle. The press release explicitly states that developers would have access to download "direct from the dev team's subversion repository". The press release also clearly articulates QNX's strategic intent: making source code available to "accelerate innovation," enable developers to "get up to speed more quickly," and allow the community to "learn from QNX's extensive OS experience". The CEO explicitly stated the goal was helping developers "learn the technology". So there is even a strong fair use case for non-commercial educational study.
It clearly states that the company made the referenced source code version available for free.
Yes, but it doesn't tell you the precise legal terms and conditions under which they made it available.
Which is the whole point – legally speaking, press releases count for very little, the actual text of the license agreement is far more important.
Are you a lawyer? USA law recognizes promissory estoppel, European laws provide protection by the good faith principle. The press release explicitly states that developers would have access to download "direct from the dev team's subversion repository". The press release also clearly articulates QNX's strategic intent: making source code available to "accelerate innovation," enable developers to "get up to speed more quickly," and allow the community to "learn from QNX's extensive OS experience". The CEO explicitly stated the goal was helping developers "learn the technology". So there is even a strong fair use case for non-commercial educational study.
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