Licensing

n. authorizing, permitting; issuing of licenses

v. issue a license, grant a permit; authorize, permit, allow

To license or grant license is to give permission. A license (also spelled licence) is the document demonstrating that permission. License may be granted by a party ("licensor") to another party ("licensee") as an element of an agreement between those parties. A shorthand definition of a license is "a promise (by the licensor) not to sue (the licensee)."
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Noun
1. a legal document giving official permission to do something
(synonym) licence, permit
(hypernym) legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
(hyponym) building permit
(derivation) licence, certify
(classification) law, jurisprudence
2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
(synonym) licence
(hypernym) liberty
(hyponym) poetic license
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
(synonym) licence
(hypernym) liberty
4. the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
(synonym) permission, permit
(hypernym) authorization, authorisation, empowerment
(hyponym) clearance
(derivation) licence, certify
Verb
1. authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"
(synonym) licence, certify
(hypernym) authorize, authorise, pass, clear
(hyponym) franchise
(entail) approve, O.K., okay, sanction
(derivation) permission, permit

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of License
  

the granting of permission by one manufacturing organisation to another to use a registered brand, symbol, process, patent, etc.