diff --git a/lib/appConfig.ts b/lib/appConfig.ts
index 4a94c15..6ac3833 100644
--- a/lib/appConfig.ts
+++ b/lib/appConfig.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import EmptyJSDirPlugin, { EmptyJSDirPluginOptions } from './plugins/EmptyJSDir.
 import replace from '@rollup/plugin-replace'
 import injectCSSPlugin from 'vite-plugin-css-injected-by-js'
 import { CSSEntryPointsPlugin } from './plugins/CSSEntryPoints.js'
+import { REUSELicensesPlugin, REUSELicensesPluginOptions } from './plugins/REUSELicensesPlugin.js'
 
 type VitePluginInjectCSSOptions = Parameters<typeof injectCSSPlugin>[0]
 
@@ -71,6 +72,12 @@ export interface AppOptions extends Omit<BaseOptions, 'inlineCSS'> {
 	 * @default 'js/vendor.LICENSE.txt'
 	 */
 	thirdPartyLicense?: false | string
+
+	/**
+	 * Extract license information from built assets into `.license` files
+	 * This is needed to be REUSE complient
+	 */
+	extractLicenseInformation?: true | REUSELicensesPluginOptions
 }
 
 /**
@@ -145,6 +152,14 @@ export const createAppConfig = (entries: { [entryAlias: string]: string }, optio
 				plugins.push(CSSEntryPointsPlugin({ createEmptyEntryPoints: options.createEmptyCSSEntryPoints }))
 			}
 
+			if (options.extractLicenseInformation) {
+				plugins.push(REUSELicensesPlugin(
+					typeof options.extractLicenseInformation === 'object'
+						? options.extractLicenseInformation
+						: {},
+				))
+			}
+
 			// defaults to true so only not adding if explicitly set to false
 			if (options?.emptyOutputDirectory !== false) {
 				// Ensure `js/` is empty as we can not use the build in option (see below)
@@ -152,7 +167,7 @@ export const createAppConfig = (entries: { [entryAlias: string]: string }, optio
 					EmptyJSDirPlugin(
 						typeof options.emptyOutputDirectory === 'object'
 							? options.emptyOutputDirectory
-							: undefined
+							: undefined,
 					),
 				)
 			}
diff --git a/lib/plugins/REUSELicensesPlugin.ts b/lib/plugins/REUSELicensesPlugin.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..179ee7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/plugins/REUSELicensesPlugin.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+/**
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Nextcloud GmbH and Nextcloud contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later OR MIT
+ */
+
+import type { Plugin } from 'vite'
+
+import { access, constants, readFile } from 'fs/promises'
+import { dirname, isAbsolute, parse } from 'path'
+import { cwd } from 'process'
+import parseExpression from 'spdx-expression-parse'
+
+interface PackageJSON {
+	author?: string | { name?: string, mail?: string }
+	name?: string
+	version?: string
+	license?: string
+	licenses?: ({ type: string } | string)[]
+}
+
+export interface REUSELicensesPluginOptions {
+	/**
+	 * Optional mapping of package names and licenses to allow overwriting when packages do not set the license in the package.json correctly
+	 * @example
+	 * ```js
+	 * {
+	 *   foo: 'MIT',
+	 *   'bar@3.0.0': 'ISC',
+	 * }
+	 * ```
+	 */
+	overwriteLicenses?: Record<string, string>
+	/**
+	 * Enable license validation (checking that the license is a valid SPDX identifier)
+	 * @default false
+	 */
+	validateLicenses?: boolean
+	/**
+	 * Enable `.license` files also for sourcemap files
+	 * @default: false
+	 */
+	includeSourceMaps?: boolean
+}
+
+/**
+ * Plugin to extract `.license` files for every built chunk
+ * @param options Options to pass to the plugin
+ */
+export function REUSELicensesPlugin(options: REUSELicensesPluginOptions = {}): Plugin {
+
+	options = {
+		overwriteLicenses: {},
+		...options,
+	}
+
+	let onError = console.error
+
+	const licenseCache = new Map<string, string>()
+
+	/**
+	 * Implementation of `verifyLicense`
+	 * @param license The license to verify
+	 * @param name The package name
+	 * @param version The package version
+	 */
+	function verifyLicenseImpl(license: string, name?: string, version?: string) {
+		if (name && name in options.overwriteLicenses) {
+			return options.overwriteLicenses[name]
+		}
+		if (name && version && `${name}@${version}` in options.overwriteLicenses) {
+			return options.overwriteLicenses[`${name}@${version}`]
+		}
+		if (!license) {
+			onError(`No license information for package ${name} @ ${version}, consider using 'overwriteLicenses' option.`)
+			return 'unkown'
+		} else if (options.validateLicenses) {
+			try {
+				parseExpression(license)
+			} catch (e) {
+				onError(`Invalid license information "${license}" for package ${name} @ ${version}`)
+			}
+		}
+		return license
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Verify a license of a specific package
+	 * This will also handle overwriting licenses
+	 * @param license The license to verify
+	 * @param name Package name
+	 * @param version Version
+	 */
+	function verifyLicense(license: string, name?: string, version?: string) {
+		if (licenseCache.has(`${name}@${version}`)) {
+			return licenseCache.get(`${name}@${version}`)
+		}
+		const value = verifyLicenseImpl(license, name, version)
+		licenseCache.set(`${name}@${version}`, value)
+		return value
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the needed fields of the package JSON data
+	 * @param data package JSON data
+	 */
+	function neededFields(data: PackageJSON) {
+		// Handle legacy packages
+		let license = data.license ?? (
+			Array.isArray(data.licenses)
+				? data.licenses.map((entry) => typeof entry === 'object' ? (entry.type ?? entry) : entry).join(' OR ')
+				: String(data.licenses)
+		)
+		license = license.trim()
+		license = license.includes(' ') && !license.startsWith('(') ? `(${license})` : license
+
+		license = verifyLicense(license, data.name, data.version)
+
+		// Handle both object style and string style author
+		const author = typeof data.author === 'object'
+			? `${data.author.name}` + (data.author.mail ? ` <${data.author.mail}>` : '')
+			: data.author ?? `${data.name} developers`
+
+		return {
+			author,
+			license,
+			name: data.name,
+			version: data.version,
+		}
+	}
+
+	const packageCache = new Map<string, ReturnType<typeof neededFields>>()
+
+	/**
+	 * Find the nearest package.json
+	 * @param dir Directory to start checking
+	 */
+	async function findPackage(dir: string) {
+		// check cache first
+		if (packageCache.has(dir)) {
+			return packageCache.get(dir)
+		}
+
+		// invalid directories
+		if (!dir || dir === '/' || dir === '.' || dir === dirname(cwd())) {
+			return null
+		}
+
+		const packageJson = `${dir}/package.json`
+		try {
+			await access(packageJson, constants.F_OK)
+		} catch (e) {
+			// There is no package.json in this directory so check the one below
+			packageCache.set(dir, await findPackage(dirname(dir)))
+			return packageCache.get(dir)
+		}
+
+		let packageInfo = JSON.parse((await readFile(packageJson)).toString())
+		// "private" is set in internal package.json which should not be resolved but the parent package.json
+		// Same if no name is set in package.json
+		if (packageInfo.private === true || !packageInfo.name) {
+			packageInfo = await findPackage(dirname(dir)) ?? packageInfo
+		}
+		packageCache.set(dir, neededFields(packageInfo))
+		return packageCache.get(dir)
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the module path from a module name (handle internal vite modules)
+	 * @param name Raw module name
+	 */
+	function sanitizeName(name: string): string {
+		if (name.startsWith('\0')) {
+			name = name.slice(1)
+			if (!isAbsolute(name)) {
+				try {
+					name = import.meta.resolve(name)
+				} catch (e) {
+					try {
+						name = import.meta.resolve(name.split('/')[0])
+					} catch (e) {
+						// nop
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return parse(name).dir
+	}
+
+	return {
+		name: 'reuse-licenses',
+
+		async renderChunk(_, chunk, config) {
+			onError = this.error
+
+			const modules = new Set<string>()
+			for (const [moduleName, module] of Object.entries(chunk.modules)) {
+				if (module.renderedLength > 0) {
+					modules.add(moduleName)
+				}
+			}
+
+			const packages = new Set((
+				await Promise.all(
+					[...modules.values()]
+						.map(sanitizeName)
+						.map(findPackage),
+				)).filter(Boolean),
+			)
+
+			const sortedPackages = [...packages].sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name) || a.version.localeCompare(b.version, undefined, { numeric: true }))
+			const authors = new Set(sortedPackages.map(({ author }) => author))
+			const licenses = new Set<string>()
+
+			let source = 'This file is generated from multiple sources. Included packages:\n'
+			for (const pkg of sortedPackages) {
+				const license = verifyLicense(pkg.license, pkg.name, pkg.version)
+				licenses.add(license)
+				source += `- ${pkg.name}\n\t- version: ${pkg.version}\n\t- license: ${license}\n`
+			}
+			source = [...licenses.values()].sort().map((license) => `SPDX-License-Identifier: ${license}`).join('\n')
+				+ '\n'
+				+ [...authors.values()].sort().map((author) => `SPDX-FileCopyrightText: ${author}`).join('\n')
+				+ '\n\n'
+				+ source
+
+			this.emitFile({
+				name: `${chunk.name}.license`,
+				fileName: `${chunk.fileName}.license`,
+				type: 'asset',
+				source,
+			})
+
+			// Also emit the sourcemap license file (as it includes the sources we need the same licenses)
+			if (config.sourcemap && config.sourcemap !== 'inline' && options.includeSourceMaps) {
+				this.emitFile({
+					name: `${chunk.name}.map.license`,
+					fileName: `${chunk.fileName}.map.license`,
+					type: 'asset',
+					source,
+				})
+			}
+		},
+	}
+}
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 7a5c0bf..5df1639 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 				"rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify": "^1.1.1",
 				"rollup-plugin-license": "^3.5.2",
 				"rollup-plugin-node-externals": "^7.1.2",
+				"spdx-expression-parse": "^4.0.0",
 				"vite-plugin-css-injected-by-js": "^3.5.1",
 				"vite-plugin-dts": "^3.9.1",
 				"vite-plugin-node-polyfills": "^0.22.0"
@@ -3527,6 +3528,17 @@
 				"url": "https://github.com/sponsors/sindresorhus"
 			}
 		},
+		"node_modules/eslint-plugin-jsdoc/node_modules/spdx-expression-parse": {
+			"version": "3.0.1",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-expression-parse/-/spdx-expression-parse-3.0.1.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-cbqHunsQWnJNE6KhVSMsMeH5H/L9EpymbzqTQ3uLwNCLZ1Q481oWaofqH7nO6V07xlXwY6PhQdQ2IedWx/ZK4Q==",
+			"dev": true,
+			"peer": true,
+			"dependencies": {
+				"spdx-exceptions": "^2.1.0",
+				"spdx-license-ids": "^3.0.0"
+			}
+		},
 		"node_modules/eslint-plugin-n": {
 			"version": "16.0.1",
 			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/eslint-plugin-n/-/eslint-plugin-n-16.0.1.tgz",
@@ -6464,15 +6476,24 @@
 				"spdx-ranges": "^2.0.0"
 			}
 		},
+		"node_modules/spdx-compare/node_modules/spdx-expression-parse": {
+			"version": "3.0.1",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-expression-parse/-/spdx-expression-parse-3.0.1.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-cbqHunsQWnJNE6KhVSMsMeH5H/L9EpymbzqTQ3uLwNCLZ1Q481oWaofqH7nO6V07xlXwY6PhQdQ2IedWx/ZK4Q==",
+			"dependencies": {
+				"spdx-exceptions": "^2.1.0",
+				"spdx-license-ids": "^3.0.0"
+			}
+		},
 		"node_modules/spdx-exceptions": {
 			"version": "2.3.0",
 			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-exceptions/-/spdx-exceptions-2.3.0.tgz",
 			"integrity": "sha512-/tTrYOC7PPI1nUAgx34hUpqXuyJG+DTHJTnIULG4rDygi4xu/tfgmq1e1cIRwRzwZgo4NLySi+ricLkZkw4i5A=="
 		},
 		"node_modules/spdx-expression-parse": {
-			"version": "3.0.1",
-			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-expression-parse/-/spdx-expression-parse-3.0.1.tgz",
-			"integrity": "sha512-cbqHunsQWnJNE6KhVSMsMeH5H/L9EpymbzqTQ3uLwNCLZ1Q481oWaofqH7nO6V07xlXwY6PhQdQ2IedWx/ZK4Q==",
+			"version": "4.0.0",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-expression-parse/-/spdx-expression-parse-4.0.0.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-Clya5JIij/7C6bRR22+tnGXbc4VKlibKSVj2iHvVeX5iMW7s1SIQlqu699JkODJJIhh/pUu8L0/VLh8xflD+LQ==",
 			"dependencies": {
 				"spdx-exceptions": "^2.1.0",
 				"spdx-license-ids": "^3.0.0"
@@ -6486,6 +6507,15 @@
 				"spdx-expression-parse": "^3.0.0"
 			}
 		},
+		"node_modules/spdx-expression-validate/node_modules/spdx-expression-parse": {
+			"version": "3.0.1",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-expression-parse/-/spdx-expression-parse-3.0.1.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-cbqHunsQWnJNE6KhVSMsMeH5H/L9EpymbzqTQ3uLwNCLZ1Q481oWaofqH7nO6V07xlXwY6PhQdQ2IedWx/ZK4Q==",
+			"dependencies": {
+				"spdx-exceptions": "^2.1.0",
+				"spdx-license-ids": "^3.0.0"
+			}
+		},
 		"node_modules/spdx-license-ids": {
 			"version": "3.0.13",
 			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-license-ids/-/spdx-license-ids-3.0.13.tgz",
@@ -6506,6 +6536,15 @@
 				"spdx-ranges": "^2.0.0"
 			}
 		},
+		"node_modules/spdx-satisfies/node_modules/spdx-expression-parse": {
+			"version": "3.0.1",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-expression-parse/-/spdx-expression-parse-3.0.1.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-cbqHunsQWnJNE6KhVSMsMeH5H/L9EpymbzqTQ3uLwNCLZ1Q481oWaofqH7nO6V07xlXwY6PhQdQ2IedWx/ZK4Q==",
+			"dependencies": {
+				"spdx-exceptions": "^2.1.0",
+				"spdx-license-ids": "^3.0.0"
+			}
+		},
 		"node_modules/sprintf-js": {
 			"version": "1.0.3",
 			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/sprintf-js/-/sprintf-js-1.0.3.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 49d268d..cdc77a7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 		"rollup-plugin-esbuild-minify": "^1.1.1",
 		"rollup-plugin-license": "^3.5.2",
 		"rollup-plugin-node-externals": "^7.1.2",
+		"spdx-expression-parse": "^4.0.0",
 		"vite-plugin-css-injected-by-js": "^3.5.1",
 		"vite-plugin-dts": "^3.9.1",
 		"vite-plugin-node-polyfills": "^0.22.0"