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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="license">
<note>
  Frames file for 'license' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
  No Verbnet entry.
</note>

<roleset id="license.01" name="give legal rights to property" vncls="-">
<roles>
  <role descr="granter of license" n="0"/>
  <role descr="licensed thing" n="1"/>
  <role descr="benefactive, licensed-to" n="2"/>
</roles>

<example name="commercialism rules">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="gerund" person="ns" tense="present" voice="active"/>
<text>
     Turns out that next year, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang turn
     40 -- and Scripps Howard's United Media unit, the syndicator and
     licensing agent for Charles Schulz's comic strip, sees a bonanza
     in *trace* licensing the cartoon characters to a bevy of
     advertisers for ads, tie-ins and promotions. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">*trace* -&gt;  Scripps Howard's United Media unit, the
        syndicator and licensing agent for Charles Schulz's comic
        strip,</arg> 
        <rel>licensing</rel>
        <arg n="1">the cartoon characters</arg>
        <arg f="to" n="2">a bevy of advertisers</arg>
        <arg f="PNC" n="M">for ads, tie-ins and promotions</arg>
</example>

<example name="reversed order">
  <inflection person="third" tense="present" aspect="perfect" voice="active" form="participle"/>
  <text>
    Sandoz Ltd. has licensed certain manufacturing and marketing
    rights for Interleukin-3 from Genetics Institute and is conducting
    preclinical studies with it. 
  </text>
  <arg n="2"        >Sandoz Ltd.</arg>
  <rel              >licensed</rel>
  <arg n="1"        >certain manufacturing and marketing rights for
  Interleukin-3</arg> 
  <arg n="0" f="from">Genetics Institute</arg>
</example>

<note>
Rather like rent and lease, but I'm not going to make a new roleset.
</note>

</roleset>
<note>
I have the feeling there's also an 'allow' sense, which will take
different framing, but we'll wait for an example from the corpus.
</note>

</predicate>
</frameset>
