Internally license sponsorship to control the behaviour of others (6)
I believe the answer is:
censor
'control the behaviour of others' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'internally license sponsorship' is the wordplay.
'internally' means to look at the middle letters.
'sponsorship' becomes 'sor' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The middle of 'license' is 'cen'.
'cen'+'sor'='CENSOR'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for censor that I've seen before include "Perhaps banner" , "Ban public distribution" , "Blue-pencilling official" , "Check contents of letter, play etc with a view to deleting passages" , "Roman magistrate" .)