I just purchased a USB lion thumb drive will I be able to install it on 2 Macs with different apple IDs?

My partner and I both have macs I want to update to lion, i just purchased the lion thunb drive, obviously we both have our own apple ID, will I be able to install it on both computers? If not how could I buy a second product key.
Thanks

There is no product key involved for Lion.

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