agreement vs license

agreement

noun
  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. 

  • Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. 

  • An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. 

  • A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. 

license

noun
  • A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit. 

  • The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software. 

  • Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech). 

  • Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint. 

verb
  • To give permission or freedom to; accept. 

  • To authorize officially. 

  • To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation. 

  • To permit (as grammatically correct). 

  • To give formal authorization to use. 

How often have the words agreement and license occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )