Talk:License

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All forms of licenses should be seperated, and not combined, as they have notting to do with topic, but rather as sub-categories, or child for that matter. ---Barry Dick <barryd.it@gmail.com>

Raw content that needs work before inclusion in the main article. A linkage list would also be good at the end of the main article linking the various types of "licenses". I will update the article if and when I have time. Please use the following to help write the article. ---maveric149
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

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 \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.

WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]

license

    n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
         [syn: permit]
    2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
       rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
       [syn: licence]
    3: 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
    4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
       [syn: permission, permit]
    v : authorize officially [syn: licence, certify] [ant: decertify]

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[edit] Merge matter from Licensing (strategic alliance)

Licensing (strategic alliance) contains interesting elements regarding intellectual property licenses but information on this type of license can already be found in License. --Edcolins 20:06, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

I somewhat agree, but licensing itself is a big topic in business as a form of operation mode / strategic alliance. The license article is too general in my opinion to fit there. --Vikingstad 07:40, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

• Disagreed. Just as Vikingstad said, licensing as a part of strategic alliance is an important topic in the field of bisuness, which should be drawn from the main topic of license and kept independent IMO.--Bellenion 08:18, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Academia section

The spelling in this section was inconsistent, with both license and 'licence being used. Since the degree of licence is conferred by European universities (according to the article), I changed the spelling throughout to licence for consistency.

Q : Does someone knows why the word splits in "licence" in Europe and "license" in the USA ?

[edit] Psychological licencing.

By the way, you don't need a licence to be a psychologist in a lot of places. Luke