# Install licensor with Homebrew

Write licenses to stdout. Version 2.1.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:licensor
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install licensor
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:licensor
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Source summary:** Write licenses to stdout
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/raftario/licensor>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/raftario/licensor>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- licensor (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.1.0
## Project history and usage

licensor is a Rust CLI that prints license texts to standard output from SPDX identifiers. It is deliberately small: license and exception data are compiled into the binary, and users redirect output into a LICENSE file.

### Project history

The public repository was created on 2019-09-19. The README says the author made it after getting tired of looking for license files for new projects.

The project is built around SPDX License List data. Its README says licenses are parsed from SPDX license-list-data, compressed, generated into Rust code, and included in the final CLI binary.

### Adoption history

licensor is distributed through Homebrew, crates.io, and GitHub release binaries. Its audience is developers who want a quick, offline-capable way to generate standard license text by SPDX ID.

### How it is used

Users run commands such as licensor MIT "Name" > LICENSE, list available licenses, or print expressions with SPDX WITH exceptions while optionally skipping optional text.

### Why package nerds care

licensor is package-nerd useful because it treats SPDX IDs as executable package metadata: the stable identifier becomes the input, and the canonical license body becomes a reproducible build artifact.

### Timeline

- 2019-09-19: GitHub repository created.
- 2019: README describes SPDX-backed license generation and WITH exception support.
- 2026: Repository metadata identifies Rust, CLI, license, licensing, and SPDX topics.

### Related projects

- Related projects include SPDX license-list-data, crates.io Rust CLIs, Homebrew developer-tool formulae, and repository bootstrapping tools that create LICENSE files.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/raftario/licensor>
- <https://crates.io/crates/licensor>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/licensor>
- <https://github.com/raftario/licensor>
- <https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raftario/licensor/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/licensor.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/licensor.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph