New Macmini - Lion on other macs?

Hi everyone, I just bought a brand new mac mini from Apple which has Lion pre-installed. I was wondering is there a way I can install Lion on my other Macs?(The MacMini didn't come with any discs). Maybe i can download the OS from the app store.
Thanks
lister
sorry just noticed I posted this in the imac forum, please move if need be..

Michael Black wrote:
I don't know how that works if you bought a new machine with Lion on it?
The Lion license agreements can be found at http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/.
Section 2 of the licenses describes permitted use. All say about the same thing: if you buy Lion via the app store or on the USB thumb drive, you can install it on every Mac you own for personal, non-commercial use, provided each of those Macs have their own licensed copy of Snow Leopard. But the preinstalled copy that comes with new Macs is licensed for use with that Mac only.
That's a pretty good deal, especially for the downloaded version, since there is no limit on the number of Macs you can use it with, subject to the terms.

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