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Why on earth did they call it a pirate certificate and not a pirate's license?

A certificate is authentication. A license is authorization.

That is.. I've never thought about it that way, but makes lots of sense. TIL and thank you.

Then what is the difference between being certified and certificated?

You can be recognised as a pirate, but if you're endorsed then you're a privateer? Licensing them stops them being pirates.

Sort of like when rappers say they're certified gangsters. Never heard a rapper say he or she was a licensed gangster

I am a bonded gangster.