# Install licensee with npm

check dependency licenses against rules. Version 12.0.1 via npm; verified 2026-01-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:licensee
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g licensee
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:licensee
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/licensee>
- **Version:** 12.0.1
- **Source summary:** check dependency licenses against rules
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jslicense/licensee.js#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jslicense/licensee.js>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/jslicense/licensee.js#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/licensee/-/licensee-12.0.1.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/jslicense/licensee.js/issues>
- **Published:** 2026-01-29T21:15:44.074Z
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-29T21:15:44.074Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00

## Executables

- licensee (cli)
- licensee (alias)

## Dependencies

- @blueoak/list
- @npmcli/arborist
- correct-license-metadata
- docopt
- hasown
- npm-license-corrections
- semver
- spdx-expression-parse
- spdx-expression-validate
- spdx-osi
- spdx-whitelisted

## Build dependencies

- aud
- ls-engines
- rimraf
- run-parallel
- spawn-sync
- standard
- tap

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-09
- Package-manager version: 12.0.1
- Package-manager updated: 2026-01-29
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/jslicense/licensee.js
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for licensee. 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: 12.0.1
- **Version Count:** 41
- **Maintainers:** kemitchell, ljharb
- **Author:** Kyle E. Mitchell
- **Publisher:** kemitchell
- **Engines:** Node: ^20.20 || ^22.22 || ^24.13 || >= 25.4
- **Integrity:** sha512-LMSs1+p7Gnqw4efSFaJPJJphn6QwugzXP0hD1VupIlGamkSvdxYm0asP3BVpM+DGJ5Bs3Cv1uwYhZokSNOwyPA==
- **Shasum:** e29434dc826851cd9557e04ee536deedf059eb5a
- **Unpacked Size:** 32,514
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2015-05-09T08:47:37.061Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2026-01-29T21:15:44.074Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-01-29T21:15:44.178Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - licensee: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: licensee from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix


## Related links

- [Security and crypto packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/security-crypto-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [license-checker-rseidelsohn](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/license-checker-rseidelsohn/) - Security-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: arborist, cli, compliance, correct, expression.
- [license-checker](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/license-checker/) - Security-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: check, cli, compliance, correct, expression.
- [license-compliance](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/license-compliance/) - Security-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: cli, compliance, expression, license, license-compliance.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph