re-branding files in SCO (was Re: SCO License security - another flame)

[John Maline]

In article <91V712w164w at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
   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.
When I asked SCO about re-branding a system, that was their story,
that you need to pull unbranded copies off the distribution disks.  My
question was regarding re-branding an Open Desktop system (we'll be
building a number of identical systems and wanted to simplify
installation).

I looked at the install scripts for the "server upgrade" (aka:
multi-user license).  It rebrands files with the new (multi-user)
serial number.  Appears to work...

   > On the other side: they obviously paid more attention to security
   > than ISC.
   No, they didn't.  They paid more attention to making sure that you
   can't illegally copy their software, when they should have been paying
   attention to things like X11R4, Motif 1.1 ...
Last I heard from SCO, they should have a X11R4-based product out in
3q91, although my source said that was a "pretty aggressive" schedule.
How old will X11R5 be by then?

These are (of course) my opinions only, not TI official policy.
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