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Editorial note

I've purchased and renewed the licence ever since v1 came out.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of licence gathered in one view.

noun

freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

noun

a legal document giving official permission to do something

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for licence.

noun

freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

noun

a legal document giving official permission to do something

verb

authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"

Example sentences

I've purchased and renewed the licence ever since v1 came out.

There are different levels of "open sourcing":1. dump the code into a zip and release it under a free licence2.

Is there some kind of licence incompatibility that the GNU project cares about?

Probation staff argued that the same could be said about every kebab shop, pub, chip shop and off-licence in the city.

Here's what I would do: I'd give them a revokable licence to use the Ikea trademark as long as only Ikea products were used on the site.

Looks great!Your new maps need to have an on-map credit to OpenStreetMap, as that's where the map data comes from, and OSM's licence requires attribution.

He took an open source project, with a licence that permitted it, and made it a commercial project by adding chances and forming a derivative work.

If you try and load this page from the UK, you get:"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee.

And why would there be, given that in order to submit patches for Ubuntu Touch, I need to give Canonical permission to relicence my code under any proprietary licence they choose?

Actually, if it's a GNU licence, the original author may be perfectly entitled to licence the software under more commercially favorable terms.

And remember, the library I wanted to use only had contributions from IBM developers and was under the favoured Eclipse licence.^ As an aside, putting 'evil' in your licence is pretty dumb.

"My understanding is that this is irrelevant to everything except maybe attribution; they're granting themselves sufficient rights to transfer & sub-licence the works, which is essentially everything necessary to sell/use/licence a copy.