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Google is confident enough in its model that in October, the company announced that it was licensing it to partners in Thailand and India.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024

The Segal family owns the Fred Segal trademark, said Lotman, who was licensing the trademark.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

OpenAI was licensing Twitter’s data — a feed of every tweet — for about $2 million a year to help build ChatGPT, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

When Krafton, the company behind PUBG, announced it was licensing the Korean fantasy novel The Bird That Drinks Tears, it didn’t reveal a game or a movie but rather plans for a multimedia franchise.

From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2021

In July, 2000, Troll Tech, a Norwegian software company and developer of Qt, a valuable suite of graphics tools for the GNU/Linux operating system, announced it was licensing its software under the GPL.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam