Hi, AZTarheel; welcome to our community!
The way your five licenses are activated is by installing the product (you would ask your friend to download it direct from the Norton site or relevant app store, depending on what kind of device they're using), then running it and logging into the Norton Account that the subscription is registered to, when the product prompts you during the activation process.
Note that this would require you to share your Norton Account information (linked email address and Norton Account password) with this friend, but I assume if it wasn't someone you trust at that level you wouldn't be looking to do this in the first place. I would still suggest you change your Norton Account password to be one you don't use elsewhere--especially not as the password for that email account!--before you share it. But I'm paranoid :smileywink:
V/R,
--DistEd2