Is a 3rd year player who took the QO an UFA or RFA

[chakdaddy]

Some people have mentioned that if Glen Davis took the 1 year qualifying offer from the Celtics, that he would still be a restricted free agent the following year - presumably because he was still a veteran free agent with 3 or fewer years of experience.

I always assumed that any player who took the QO automatically was unrestricted the next year.

The salary cap faq doesn't really clarify, and different passages, to my reading, suggest different answers:

This passage suggests that anyone coming off a QO is an UFA.

39. What if a restricted free agent has no interest in staying with his original team? Is there any way he can force the issue?
...
If the player really wants to leave, he can accept his original team's qualifying offer, which constitutes a one-year contract at a scale salary. The player must play with his original team for one more season, but following that season he will be an unrestricted free agent, and can then sign with any other team.

But this passage suggests that any FA with 3 or fewer years exp would be an RFA, regardless of whether the previous year was played on a QO.

36. What is restricted free agency?
... Restricted free agency exists only on a limited basis. It is allowed following the fourth year of rookie "scale" contracts for first round draft picks (see question number 41). It is also allowed for all veteran free agents who have been in the league three or fewer seasons.

[Three34]

He would be a RFA again if the team wanted him to be. This has happened to Jannero Pargo and Ryan Hollins in the past.

[Dunkenstein]

While it may not specifically say so, #39 is referring to RFAs coming off a rookie scale contract which is given to first round picks. Davis was a second round pick who has only played two years. So even if he accepts Boston's QO this summer, he will still be a RFA next summer.