A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreement between those parties. In the case of a license issued...

A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...

MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...

A free license or open license is a license that allows copyrighted work to be reused, modified, and redistributed. These uses are normally prohibited...

The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It allows users to use the software for any...

A driver's license, driving licence, or driving permit is a legal authorization, or the official document confirming such an authorization, for a specific...

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...

libpng library uses a similar license, libpng license, sometimes referred interchangeably as zlib/libpng license. The zlib license has been approved by the...

A firearms license (also known as a gun license; or licence in British English) is a license or permit issued by a government authority (typically by...

Artistic license (alongside more contextually-specific derivative terms such as poetic license, historical license, dramatic license, and narrative license) refers...

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...

The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for...

Floating licensing, also known as concurrent licensing or network licensing, is a software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for a...

including licensing statements from within the work. The right to reuse such a work is granted by the authors in a license known as a free license, a free...

In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is...

License to Chill is the twenty-fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and was released on July 13, 2004, by Mailboat and RCA Nashville...

License fee may mean: a fee paid for a license in general a fee paid for a television licence (most common usage of this phrase in the United Kingdom)...

"Drivers License" (stylized in all lowercase) is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo. It was released on January 8, 2021, by...

The Python License is a deprecated permissive computer software license created by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). It was used...

License is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language women-centric, social awareness film written and directed by Ganapathi Balamurugan. The film stars Rajalakshmi...

The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users...

The PHP License is the open-source license under which the PHP scripting language is released. The PHP License is designed to encourage widespread adoption...

ICP license (abbreviation for Internet Content Provider; Chinese: ICP备案; pinyin: ICP bèi'àn; lit. 'ICP registration/filing') is a permit issued by the...

A compulsory license provides that the owner of a patent or copyright licenses the use of their rights against payment either set by law or determined...

Creative license can refer to Artistic license, also known as dramatic license Creative Commons licenses, a family of copyright licenses This disambiguation...

License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for...

also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian English), is a metal...

A marriage license (or marriage licence in Commonwealth spelling) is a document issued, either by a religious organization or state authority, authorizing...

medical license is an occupational license that permits a person to legally practice medicine. In most countries, a person must have a medical license bestowed...

mean multiple different software licenses or sets of licenses. Prefixes may be used to indicate the number of licenses used, e.g. dual-licensed for software...