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No real need for Copland — there’s an entire book about it — search for Mac OS 8 by Tony Francis.

Thank you! I had no idea this book existed. To save others from searching: https://archive.org/details/mac_Mac_OS_8_Revealed_1996_raw-p...

There is a Taligent (Pink) book whose first chapters are available online.

http://www.wildcrest.com/Potel/Portfolio/InsideTaligentTechn...

Gershwin was always vaporware. As far as I know, no real code was written; it was all planning.

Pink did exist in various forms, and it would be fascinating to have that material available, though.

ICU (https://icu.unicode.org) started as a Pink/Taligent project.

It's a crazy little thing to remember, but I used to have not one but two demo CD's for Copland. For some reason I even remember when I threw them out...