Definition of Licenses. Meaning of Licenses. Synonyms of Licenses

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Definition of Licenses

License
License Li"cense (l[imac]"sens), n. [Written also licence.] [F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See Loan, and cf. Illicit, Leisure.] 1. 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. To have a license and a leave at London to dwell. --P. Plowman. 2. The document granting such permission. --Addison. 3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety. License they mean when they cry liberty. --Milton. 4. 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. Syn: Leave; liberty; permission.
License
License Li"cense (l[imac]"sens), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Licensed (l[imac]"senst); p. pr. & vb. n. Licensing.] To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach. --Milton. Shak.

Meaning of Licenses from wikipedia

- licensee. For example, McDonald's licenses their trademark such as the "Golden Arches" or the "Big Mac", but the licenses gives McDonald's a right to impose...
- covers free content licenses and open-source licenses, also known as free software licenses. The invention of the term "free license" and the focus on the...
- BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...
- restrictions on reuse and therefore has high license compatibility. Unlike copyleft software licenses, the MIT License also permits reuse within proprietary...
- and public-domain-equivalent licenses have no restrictions. The proliferation of open-source licenses has compounded license compatibility issues, but all...
- Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used...
- Source Licensing Guide". California Western School of Law. Retrieved 28 November 2015. The 'BSD-like' licenses such as the BSD, MIT, and Apache licenses are...
- appropriate license. Depending on banking regulations, jurisdictions may offer different types of banking licenses, such as: full banking licenses for general...
- has released several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow authors of creative works...
- Floating licensing, also known as concurrent licensing or network licensing, is a software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for a...