Hi Matt,
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Yea, we have an FAE at Altera who I'm bugging with all these questions at the moment. I put it to the forums as well to see if anybody had found an alternative to me putting down the FTDI + CPLD along with licensing the USB Blaster (which you are correct that it can be licensed). I'd like to hear what Thomas says, otherwise I'll chime in with updates if I get some useful info back from Altera on this.
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It would be interesting to know what the licensing fee is, though I doubt Altera would want you to post it to the forum :)
I look forward to hearing what you end up doing.
Cheers,
Dave