IMHO, QNX should provide a free partner license to someone who does such a project (3rd party CD). However, you must not wait until it falls from heaven, instead you should ask at partners@qnx.com . If there is no response, then tough luck for QNX.
Of course it did, my Alliance license was from beta testing of QNX since 6.2, then 6.2.1, then 6.3, but since 6.3 license is time-limited.
Anyway this time-limited license stuff was a stupid step from QSSL side, anyone who just wants to play QNX will find a keygen, others who used it at work will buy a developer and runtime certificates anyway. These TDKs separation and license stuff just killed a community (scanty enough without any restrictions) and doesn’t bring any benefit to anyone: nor community, nor QSSL, nor developers.
It wasn’t too much work, it was work that the two main people working on it (of which I was one) decided was a waste of time and energy. Soon after we stopped I left QSS and the other guy got involved in other projects within the company. It should be obvious by now that QSS really has no interest in supporting a free/download version of QNX for any purpose other then evaluation for commerical use. No community, no hobby users, nothing of the sort. Is this a bad move? Only time will tell.