Crystal 8.5 Licensing?

I've been assigned to maintain some old VB 6.0 code that was developed by a different company. Some of the reports appear to be Crystal Reports 8.5 ttx files.
While I've found several places I can download Crystal Reports 8.5 developer from, I would prefer to have a valid license key. Is there any place I can purchase one left? I see NO legacy products in the SAP store.

Ouch - stone ages
But seriously.
1) TTX file is not the actual report. You can think of TTX files as equivalent to an XSD and CR would use it to verify that a record set being passed to the report had a correct structure.
2) If this is a 3rd party app, it deployed the CR runtime. The runtime is free and you do not need any license for this. The 3rd party needed a license to use the APIs, but runtime is free.
Given the above, I am not sure why you are looking for an actual "license key". E.g.; the only time you need a license is if you will be using the CR designer and or using \ developing with one of the SDKs that came with the CR designer.
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