License vs. Licensee

A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.

The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.

Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).

Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.

The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.

Example: ‘It was decided to license Wikipedia under the GFDL.’;

Authorize officially.

Example: ‘I am licensed to practice law in this state.’;

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.

Example: ‘To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.’;

The document granting such permission.

Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.

Example: ‘License they mean when they cry liberty.’;

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.

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

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

excessive freedom; lack of due restraint;

Example: ‘when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near’; ‘the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum’;

the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

authorize officially;

Example: ‘I am licensed to practice law in this state’;

A license (American English) or licence (British English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).A license is granted by a party to another party as an element of an agreement between those parties. In the case of a license issued by a government, the license is obtained by applying for it.

(legal) A person to whom a license is granted.

The person to whom a license is given.

someone to whom a license is granted

A licensee can mean the holder of a license or, in U.S. tort law, a licensee is a person who is on the property of another, despite the fact that the property is not open to the general public, because the owner of the property has allowed the licensee to enter. The status of a visitor as a licensee (as opposed to a trespasser or an invitee) defines the legal rights of the visitor if they are injured due to the negligence of the property possessor (not necessarily the owner).