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From: wul@sco.COM (Wu Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame
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Date: 1 May 91 00:46:34 GMT
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/--mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) said...
| ralfi@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.