By purchasing a software license, you obtain the right to use the program in question.
A license (from Latin licentĭa ) is a permission to do something . The term also allows you to name the document or contract that contains the license in question. For example: "Next year I will be able to process the license, so I have to save up to buy a car," "The company has acquired the license to market this product throughout the Latin American market."
For law , the license contract is an authorization that transfers the right to use a good to another person or organization . These are generally intellectual or non-tangible assets, such as a trademark or patent.
Typically, you pay a stipulated amount to use the license. In the case of software , paying for a license authorizes the use of a program without the user being the owner of it (that is why they can only use it and not modify or sell it).
Driver license
The driver's license , on the other hand, is the document that contains the administrative authorization to drive vehicles on public roads. Each city or country has its own criteria for granting these licenses.
It is common that, in order to obtain a driver's license, you must have a minimum age and take a driving test. When a driver violates traffic laws, his or her license may be revoked and you may lose your authorization to drive.
To drive a car, you must have the corresponding license.
Other types
There are many more types of licenses. Thus, for example, there is also the hunting weapon that, in Spain , every person who wants to have a weapon to carry out hunting activities as a hobby must have. It is a personal and non-transferable document that has a legal validity of between one and five years, which requires that the person requesting it be at least fourteen years old and that will guarantee the individual in question with the corresponding permit to capture the permitted animals. during each season.
Within the military field we cannot ignore that there is what is known as absolute license . Specifically, it is the authorization that is granted to soldiers permanently and which determines that they are completely exempt from military service.
License in literature and cinema
Likewise, in the field of literature, the term we are analyzing is also used to refer to an action of writers. Specifically, in this sector we talk about poetic license, which refers to the different violations committed by authors of the rules and laws of style or language in the field of poetry.
Another use of the concept of license refers to the abusive freedom in acting or saying : "It is an adaptation of Flaubert's novel but with many licenses."
To all this we would have to add that one of the most important films of one of the most significant fictional characters of the 20th century also has the word we are analyzing in its title. We are referring to the film "License to Kill" , from 1989, which tells how agent James Bond has been suspended from service and is after a drug trafficker to avenge the death of his friend.