licence

nouns

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
is derived from
freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
a legal document giving official permission to do something

verbs

authorize officially
"I am licensed to practice law in this state"
is derived from