# Pkg.add display license?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Created:** [November 20, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196 "2017-11-20T18:08:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@oatlzzvztd](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oatlzzvztd)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196/1 "2017-11-20T18:08:44Z")
I’d been planning on using LinearOperators.jl for a project but discovered that it is licensed under the GPL, which I am allergic to for various unimportant reasons. I guess I’m kind of used to Julia libraries being licensed under MIT.
Anyway, to avoid this in the future, I think it would be nice if Pkg.add() displayed the license one was agreeing to before installation. Is this information available to the package manager? I tried reading Base.Pkg, but it doesn’t make much sense to me.
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### Author:  [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196/2 "2017-11-20T18:23:38Z")
You could always try (using whatever text editor you wish)
```nohighlight
julia> cd(Pkg.dir("pkgname"))
shell> vim license # or LICENSE.md
```
To access the license, most registered packages should have that in their package directory.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196/3 "2017-11-20T18:33:32Z")
Perhaps you should open a feature request at
[https://github.com/StefanKarpinski/Pkg3.jl](https://github.com/StefanKarpinski/Pkg3.jl)
(note: I did not check past ones, maybe it came up already)
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196/4 "2017-11-20T19:30:53Z")
Seems like a good idea, prompting one for each type of license in a project file seems like a good feature for the new package manager.
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### Author:  [@swissr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/swissr)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196/5 "2017-11-20T21:05:38Z")
Prompting for non-MIT licenses only would problably suffice as MIT is (kind of) the expected standard license.
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### Author:  [@jballanc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jballanc)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-display-license/7196/6 "2017-11-20T23:10:12Z")
Actually, it would be nice if there was a way to configure which licenses were acceptable or not by default. I imagine most medium-to-large organizations that consume open source have a vetted list of licenses that they’re ok with.