diff --git a/.changeset/hot-forks-tap.md b/.changeset/hot-forks-tap.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c5d5302120a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/hot-forks-tap.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/list": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+`pnpm list --long --json` should print licenses and authors of packagese [#5533](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/5533).
diff --git a/packages/list/src/getPkgInfo.ts b/packages/list/src/getPkgInfo.ts
index db35f818e1f..210ef8a2b9c 100644
--- a/packages/list/src/getPkgInfo.ts
+++ b/packages/list/src/getPkgInfo.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ export async function getPkgInfo (
     resolved: pkg.resolved,
 
     description: manifest.description,
+    license: manifest.license,
+    author: manifest.author,
 
     homepage: manifest.homepage,
     repository: (manifest.repository && (
diff --git a/packages/list/test/index.ts b/packages/list/test/index.ts
index 0590e20bc01..6d5ed0282bc 100644
--- a/packages/list/test/index.ts
+++ b/packages/list/test/index.ts
@@ -435,6 +435,12 @@ test('JSON list with aliased dep', async () => {
           resolved: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/is-positive/-/is-positive-1.0.0.tgz',
 
           description: 'Test if a number is positive',
+          license: 'MIT',
+          author: {
+            name: 'Kevin Martensson',
+            email: 'kevinmartensson@gmail.com',
+            url: 'github.com/kevva',
+          },
           homepage: 'https://github.com/kevva/is-positive#readme',
           repository: 'git+https://github.com/kevva/is-positive.git',
         },