SCO License security - another flame

Wu Liu wul at sco.COM
Wed May 1 10:46:34 AEST 1991


/--mju at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) said...
| ralfi at pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de (Ralf U. Holighaus) writes:
| > You could do so with SCO, and then usr /etc/brand for the system speci-
| > fic files to 'brand' the new system to the new serial numbers.
| 
| No, you can't.  "brand" does just what its name implies -- it brands
| the file permanently with a serial number.  It's impossible to
| re-brand a file.
\--

Not quite true.  I believe this was the case for Unix 3.2.0, but
Unix 3.2v2 and both Open Desktop releases (1.0 and 1.1) allow for
rebranding of the system with new, different serial numbers.



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