Is it evil to require a magic liscense?

[BWR]

Snarky joke: Depends on if you're American or not.

It is a Law/Chaos question, not a Good/Evil. If a society, either political or magical, decided that magic is too powerful to allow unsupervised training and use, and they want too restrict reality-warpers to make sure they don't misuse it, a very justified and reasonable thing, to my mind, it's certainly not evil.

If it's all about making sure only the people in power have power and ruthlessly crushing any opposition, it is merely another morally neutral tool used for evil purposes.

In the case of the Order, they are not evil in game, certainly, since the White Robes are by defintion servants of Good. What the Order has decided is that rogue magicians are too powerful and too unpredictable to have running around. At least with the Order, you have some sort of idea of who is a threat to the world and what to do about it. Some people like Fistandantilus and Raistlin obviously become too powerful to do anything with, but who knows how many other potential despots the Order has taken control of throughout their time.
And White Robes and to a lesser extent Red Robes try to bring people into the Order and try to capture them alive rather than just killing them outright.

BTW: how's your search for a new group going?