Find licenses used in a Node.js project

by Moritz · 28. November 2015

At some point of writing code and installing a various number of packages per npm, I was curious about how to find all the licenses used .
So I searched for an easy way to get a list of all my installed packages, along with the licenses used.

Node License Finder

After a short research I found a nice utility called “Node License Finder”, you can get it with npm:

Install

npm install -g nlf

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Or just check the GitHub repo here.

Usage

Just navigate to your project and enter the following command in a terminal session:

nlf

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Here an example output:

	abbrev@1.0.7 [license(s): ISC]
	├── package.json: ISC
	└── license files: ISC

	accepts@1.2.11 [license(s): MIT]
	├── package.json: MIT
	└── license files: MIT

	acorn@1.2.2 [license(s): MIT]
	└── package.json: MIT