License

A license is a voluntary agreement about use. In the agreement, the maker or owner of a thing gives a different person permission to use that thing, in specified terms. A license is a type of Contract: it requires consent, clear terms, and honest action from both sides. To violate the terms of a license is Contract Breach. That breach makes a victim, and the violator owes that victim Restitution. A license that a person gave in duress, or with hidden terms, is invalid. A license that authority commands, without agreement between trade partners, is regulation, not a real license.