Read the dictionary definition of licence. All definitions for this word.
1. a legal document giving official permission to do something
2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
3. excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
1. when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near
2. the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum
4. authorize officially
1. I am licensed to practice law in this state