SCO Unix, Xenix and ODT General FAQ

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What consumes a SCO Unix user license? What uses do I need to buy more licenses for?

As a general rule, if someone is logging in, that consumes a license, where a service usage does not.

It gets a little confusing though: an ftp login or a pop mail transaction do not consume license.

See Which networking utilities consume user licenses in SCO OpenServer and Unixware? for the gory details.

On current versions, "brand -u" tells you how many user license are currently in use. It will return a negative number if that number exceeds the licenses you have purchased (the license manager lets you "cheat" a little bit pre-5.0.7).

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