# Install license-checker with npm

Check license info for a package. Version 25.0.1 via npm; verified 2019-01-10.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:license-checker
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g license-checker
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:license-checker
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/license-checker>
- **Version:** 25.0.1
- **Source summary:** Check license info for a package
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/davglass/license-checker#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/davglass/license-checker>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/davglass/license-checker#readme>
- **License:** BSD-3-Clause
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/license-checker/-/license-checker-25.0.1.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <http://github.com/davglass/license-checker/issues>
- **Published:** 2019-01-10T19:30:32.196Z
- **Last updated:** 2019-01-10T19:30:32.196Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- license-checker (cli)
- license-checker (alias)

## Dependencies

- chalk
- debug
- mkdirp
- nopt
- read-installed
- semver
- spdx-correct
- spdx-expression-parse
- spdx-satisfies
- treeify

## Build dependencies

- camden.jshint
- detectionizr
- eslint
- format-package-json
- git-contributors
- github-changes
- istanbul
- jenkins-mocha
- locale
- queue
- request
- rimraf

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 25.0.1
- Package-manager updated: 2019-01-10
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/davglass/license-checker
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for license-checker. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 25.0.1
- **Version Count:** 74
- **Maintainers:** davglass
- **Author:** Dav Glass
- **Publisher:** davglass
- **Integrity:** sha512-mET5AIwl7MR2IAKYYoVBBpV0OnkKQ1xGj2IMMeEFIs42QAkEVjRtFZGWmQ28WeU7MP779iAgOaOy93Mn44mn6g==
- **Shasum:** 4d14504478a5240a857bb3c21cd0491a00d761fa
- **Unpacked Size:** 143,925
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-01-14T20:53:47.757Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2019-01-10T19:30:32.196Z
- **Modified At:** 2022-06-19T12:11:22.253Z


## Related links

- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [license-checker-rseidelsohn](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/license-checker-rseidelsohn/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: chalk, checker, correct, debug, expression.
- [license-compliance](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/license-compliance/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: chalk, checker, debug, expression, license.
- [npm-license](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/npm-license/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: check, checker, info, installed, license.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph