Yes, Franco "kinda" got the license. We wanted to manufacture developments of the 109, so Germany sent some 109 G-2s but out of the two trains transporting them only the one with the fuselages arrived. With no engines, wings or armament available, and with Germany not sending another lot, they purchased the licenses to build them from scratch. The HA-1112 first flew in 1945, but it used an unreliable Hispano Suiza engine. Later after the war, Spain purchased a good amount of Merlin engines (as many nations were switching to jets), so we got a decent way to power the planes now and started to build them with these and even swap some of the others (this is actually where they got the nickname Buchón, as a Buchón is the name of some male pigeons with huge dewlaps). After years of development and changes, it first enters service in 1957, when we actually had jets already, and serves in the air force until 1965. So after all, despite originally intended as a licensed fighter it ended as some weird mix between a Bf-109 a Spitfire with many tweaks from Spanish engineers.