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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:17:06 +0100
From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Emprex / Star / Cavium followup
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Bruce M Simpson wrote:
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> It's been around 3 months since I originally fired off questions about 
> this, neither Emprex nor Star have replied, perhaps now that Cavium 
> have bought Star, we may be more likely to get answers to these 
> questions.

Further to this:
The NSD-100 is in fact using ARMBoot, which is a GPLed firmware project. 
By not releasing the firmware patches for the STR9104 in the product, 
the author(s) of the firmware patches (presumably Star) are violating 
the GPL there too.