License renting, in which a pharmacy uses a registered pharmacist’s credentials without meaningful professional involvement, raises important concerns for patient safety, professional ethics, and public health. This editorial examines the practice from regulatory, ethical, workforce, and pharmaceutical-care perspectives. International differences in pharmacy ownership, professional responsibility, and regulatory systems are considered, highlighting the need to avoid a single definition or regulatory approach. Potential contributing factors include workforce oversupply or shortages, inadequate remuneration, commercial pressures, ownership structures, and weak regulatory capacity. The editorial further argues that license renting may deprive patients of essential pharmaceutical-care services beyond safe medicine dispensing. A systems-based response involving stronger regulation, professional self-regulation, ethical education, fair remuneration, workforce planning, and expansion of patient-centered pharmacy services is proposed. Ultimately, professional registration should represent genuine competence, accountability, and active professional responsibility rather than a commercial formality.