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Definition of to license in English English dictionary: A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit; An academic degree, the holder of which is called a licentiate, ranking slightly below doctorate, awarded by certain European and Latin-American universities; Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech); {v} to grant leave set at liberty; {n} permission, liberty; An academic degree, the holder of which is called a licentiate, ranking slightly below doctorate, awarded by certain European and South American Universities; Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety; Authorize officially; A transfer of patent rights that does not amount to an assignment A license, which can be exclusive or non-exclusive, does not give the licensee the legal title to the patent; a legal document giving official permission to do something; the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization; The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software; To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach; A legal document giving official permission to do something, a permit; An agreement in which a national government gives an oil company the rights to explore for and produce oil and/or gas in a designated area; authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"; Certificate of proficiency recognizing that a skydiver has met a specified level of experience, skill, and knowledge There are four classes of USPA licenses: A, B, C and D USPA licenses are recognized internationally through the FAI; excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke; The right to do something In publishing, the right to publish a book or books, or to something from one book in another product; Permission to go upon or use the land of another, the permission being a personal privilege and not constituting an interest in the land; - a contract that grants a party explicit rights to use intellectual property Also, a digital permit containing descriptions of rights that can be applied to one or more pieces of content; Authority granted by the owner of an intellectual property to another allowing the latter the right to use it in some limited way; Permission to do something which, without such permission, would be illegal For example, a license to use digital information gives the Licensee permission to access and use the information under the terms and conditions described in the agreement between the Licensor and the Licensee; When you purchase a copy of a computer program, you are granted a license to use that program under specified conditions Use outside the provisions of the license is a violation of copyright and other laws Software loaded on servers is generally purchased with several licenses, meaning that the number of licenses regulates the number of people that can use the software at once Programs called "license auditors" are often used on servers to prevent too many people from using the software simultaneously; The document granting such permission; Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors; License means any one of those offerings identified in the Product List (including standard licenses and upgrades for desktop operating systems) that provides the right to run the version of the product for which it is ordered; That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc; - Permission to go upon or use the land of another, the permission being a personal privilege and not constituting an interest in the land; the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization a legal document giving official permission to do something freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break; {f} issue a license, grant a permit; authorize, permit, allow; A certificate of authority issued by the Department of Insurance to an insurer, agent, broker, or broker-agent to transact insurance business; legal permission from a patent owner to practice an invention License agreements include miscellaneous financial and diligence terms; 1 A permit obtained from local government authorities to conduct certain types of business activities, such as a restaurant, or events, such as a parade 2 An agreement under which one company may use the logo or other property of another, as on a tee shirt; Formal permission granted by the U S Department of Commerce and/or Department of State to export specific commodities, technology, or software to a particular destination and end user for a specified end use; the approval by a governmental agency, usually at the state level, for an individual to be a teacher in the designated state, grade levels, subject areas, and specialties Licensure indicates that the candidate has met a minimum level of requirements, designed to ensure the protection of student, public health, safety, and welfare interests See Certification, Credentialing; An authorization from the state granting permission to perform duties which, without such permission, would be illegal; – A contractual arrangement whereby one person (Licensor) licenses another person (Licensee) some or all trade secret, patent, copyright, trade-mark or intellectual property rights the Licensor has in or to an invention Unlike an assignment, a license does not transfer ownership A sub-license occurs when the Licensee has rights to further license the Licensee’s rights to a third party A license may be for a set term or perpetual, be non-exclusive or exclusive, and is often granted in exchange for royalties or other compensation; To license a person or activity means to give official permission for the person to do something or for the activity to take place. a proposal that would require the state to license guns Under the agreement, the council can license a U.S. company to produce the drug. to give official permission for someone to do or produce something, or for an activity to take place be licensed to do sth; The right to perform certain activities, generally granted by a governmental agency; Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; a contract in which the owner of the patent grants another person or company permission to make, use, or sell the patented invention Licenses may be exclusive (if a single manufacturer is licensed to develop the invention) or nonexclusive (if multiple manufacturers are licensed to develop it) Licenses can extend for the entire length of the patent or for shorter periods of time; 1 A privilege or right granted to a person by a state to operate as a real estate broker or salesperson 2 The revocable permission for a temporary use of landa personal right that cannot be sold; A special permission to do something on, or with, somebody else's property which, were it not for the license, could be legally prevented or give rise to legal action in tort or trespass A common example is allowing a person to walk across your lawn which, if it were not for the license, would constitute trespass Licenses are revocable at will (unless supported by a contract) and, as such, differs from an easement (the latter conveying a legal interest in the land) Licenses which are not based on a contract and which are fully revocable are called "simple" or "bare" licenses A common example is the shopping mall to which access by the public is on the basis of an implied license; the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state; An authority granted by the United States to do a particular act or series of acts upon public lands without the licensee possessing any estate or interest in the land itself; a license is a right granted to a person or company to exercise rights over or in connection with something owned by another Thus, for example, a license could be granted to enter land, to use a trademark, to carry out a mechanical or chemical process or simply to use goods owned by another The key feature of a license is that it is a right, usually limited by time to use something which continues to be owned by someone else, rather than the transfer to a person of the thing or the full rights to it; {i} official permission, authorization; document which shows proof of authorization, certificate; freedom (of action, belief, etc.); lack of restraint, excessive freedom; lic