diff --git a/types/validate-npm-package-license/index.d.ts b/types/validate-npm-package-license/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for validate-npm-package-license 3.0
+// Project: https://github.com/kemitchell/validate-npm-package-license.js#readme
+// Definitions by: Gabriel Fournier <https://github.com/carboneater>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare namespace validateLicense {
+    interface Result {
+        inFile?: string;
+        spdx?: true;
+        unlicensed?: true;
+        validForOldPackages: boolean;
+        validForNewPackages: boolean;
+        warnings?: string[];
+    }
+}
+
+declare function validateLicense(license: string): validateLicense.Result;
+
+export = validateLicense;
diff --git a/types/validate-npm-package-license/tsconfig.json b/types/validate-npm-package-license/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "validate-npm-package-license-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/validate-npm-package-license/tslint.json b/types/validate-npm-package-license/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }
diff --git a/types/validate-npm-package-license/validate-npm-package-license-tests.ts b/types/validate-npm-package-license/validate-npm-package-license-tests.ts
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+import validateLicense = require('validate-npm-package-license');
+
+validateLicense('MIT'); // $ExpectType Result
+validateLicense('BSD-2-Clause'); // $ExpectType Result
+validateLicense('Apache-2.0'); // $ExpectType Result
+validateLicense('ISC'); // $ExpectType Result
+validateLicense('UNLICENSED'); // $ExpectType Result
+validateLicense('(GPL-3.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)'); // $ExpectType Result
+validateLicense('LicenseRef-Made-Up'); // $ExpectType Result