jail vs license

jail

verb
  • To imprison. 

noun
  • In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined. 

  • Confinement in a jail. 

  • A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance. 

  • A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. 

  • The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). 

license

verb
  • To permit (as grammatically correct). 

  • To give permission or freedom to; accept. 

  • To authorize officially. 

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

  • To give formal authorization to use. 

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

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

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

  • Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint. 

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