diff --git a/changelog/init_license.dd b/changelog/init_license.dd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b585e60a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/init_license.dd
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Dub init now has a select menu for package format and license
+
+When creating a package using `dub init` you are now prompted to select a license for the package.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/source/dub/commandline.d b/source/dub/commandline.d
index 3895e079b..5bb5db064 100644
--- a/source/dub/commandline.d
+++ b/source/dub/commandline.d
@@ -990,27 +990,190 @@ class InitCommand : Command {
 
 		static string input(string caption, string default_value)
 		{
-			writef("%s [%s]: ", caption, default_value);
+			writef("%s [%s]: ", caption.color(Mode.bold), default_value);
 			stdout.flush();
 			auto inp = readln();
 			return inp.length > 1 ? inp[0 .. $-1] : default_value;
 		}
 
+		static string select(string caption, bool free_choice, string default_value, const string[] options...)
+		{
+			assert(options.length);
+			import std.math : floor, log10;
+			auto ndigits = (size_t val) => log10(cast(double) val).floor.to!uint + 1;
+
+			immutable default_idx = options.countUntil(default_value);
+			immutable max_width = options.map!(s => s.length).reduce!max + ndigits(options.length) + "  ".length;
+			immutable num_columns = max(1, 82 / max_width);
+			immutable num_rows = (options.length + num_columns - 1) / num_columns;
+
+			string[] options_matrix;
+			options_matrix.length = num_rows * num_columns;
+			foreach (i, option; options)
+			{
+				size_t y = i % num_rows;
+				size_t x = i / num_rows;
+				options_matrix[x + y * num_columns] = option;
+			}
+
+			auto idx_to_user = (string option) => cast(uint)options.countUntil(option) + 1;
+			auto user_to_idx = (size_t i) => cast(uint)i - 1;
+
+			assert(default_idx >= 0);
+			writeln((free_choice ? "Select or enter " : "Select ").color(Mode.bold), caption.color(Mode.bold), ":".color(Mode.bold));
+			foreach (i, option; options_matrix)
+			{
+				if (i != 0 && (i % num_columns) == 0) writeln();
+				if (!option.length)
+					continue;
+				auto user_id = idx_to_user(option);
+				writef("%*u)".color(Color.cyan, Mode.bold) ~ " %s", ndigits(options.length), user_id,
+					leftJustifier(option, max_width));
+			}
+			writeln();
+			immutable default_choice = (default_idx + 1).to!string;
+			while (true)
+			{
+				auto choice = input(free_choice ? "?" : "#?", default_choice);
+				if (choice is default_choice)
+					return default_value;
+				choice = choice.strip;
+				uint option_idx = uint.max;
+				try
+					option_idx = cast(uint)user_to_idx(to!uint(choice));
+				catch (ConvException)
+				{}
+				if (option_idx != uint.max)
+				{
+					if (option_idx < options.length)
+						return options[option_idx];
+				}
+				else if (free_choice || options.canFind(choice))
+					return choice;
+				logError("Select an option between 1 and %u%s.", options.length,
+						 free_choice ? " or enter a custom value" : null);
+			}
+		}
+
+		static string license_select(string def)
+		{
+			static immutable licenses = [
+				"BSL-1.0 (Boost)",
+				"MIT",
+				"Unlicense (public domain)",
+				"Apache-",
+				"-1.0",
+				"-1.1",
+				"-2.0",
+				"AGPL-",
+				"-1.0-only",
+				"-1.0-or-later",
+				"-3.0-only",
+				"-3.0-or-later",
+				"GPL-",
+				"-2.0-only",
+				"-2.0-or-later",
+				"-3.0-only",
+				"-3.0-or-later",
+				"LGPL-",
+				"-2.0-only",
+				"-2.0-or-later",
+				"-2.1-only",
+				"-2.1-or-later",
+				"-3.0-only",
+				"-3.0-or-later",
+				"BSD-",
+				"-1-Clause",
+				"-2-Clause",
+				"-3-Clause",
+				"-4-Clause",
+				"MPL- (Mozilla)",
+				"-1.0",
+				"-1.1",
+				"-2.0",
+				"-2.0-no-copyleft-exception",
+				"EUPL-",
+				"-1.0",
+				"-1.1",
+				"-2.0",
+				"CC- (Creative Commons)",
+				"-BY-4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International)",
+				"-BY-SA-4.0 (Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International)",
+				"Zlib",
+				"ISC",
+				"proprietary",
+			];
+
+			static string sanitize(string license)
+			{
+				auto desc = license.countUntil(" (");
+				if (desc != -1)
+					license = license[0 .. desc];
+				return license;
+			}
+
+			string[] root;
+			foreach (l; licenses)
+				if (!l.startsWith("-"))
+					root ~= l;
+
+			string result;
+			while (true)
+			{
+				string picked;
+				if (result.length)
+				{
+					auto start = licenses.countUntil!(a => a == result || a.startsWith(result ~ " (")) + 1;
+					auto end = start;
+					while (end < licenses.length && licenses[end].startsWith("-"))
+						end++;
+					picked = select(
+						"variant of " ~ result[0 .. $ - 1],
+						false,
+						"(back)",
+						// https://dub.pm/package-format-json.html#licenses
+						licenses[start .. end].map!"a[1..$]".array ~ "(back)"
+					);
+					if (picked == "(back)")
+					{
+						result = null;
+						continue;
+					}
+					picked = sanitize(picked);
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					picked = select(
+						"an SPDX license-identifier ("
+							~ "https://spdx.org/licenses/".color(Color.light_blue, Mode.underline)
+							~ ")".color(Mode.bold),
+						true,
+						def,
+						// https://dub.pm/package-format-json.html#licenses
+						root
+					);
+					picked = sanitize(picked);
+				}
+				if (picked == def)
+					return def;
+
+				if (result.length)
+					result ~= picked;
+				else
+					result = picked;
+
+				if (!result.endsWith("-"))
+					return result;
+			}
+		}
+
 		void depCallback(ref PackageRecipe p, ref PackageFormat fmt) {
 			import std.datetime: Clock;
 
 			if (m_nonInteractive) return;
 
-			while (true) {
-				string rawfmt = input("Package recipe format (sdl/json)", fmt.to!string);
-				if (!rawfmt.length) break;
-				try {
-					fmt = rawfmt.to!PackageFormat;
-					break;
-				} catch (Exception) {
-					logError(`Invalid format '%s', enter either 'sdl' or 'json'.`, rawfmt);
-				}
-			}
+			enum free_choice = true;
+			fmt = select("a package recipe format", !free_choice, fmt.to!string, "sdl", "json").to!PackageFormat;
 			auto author = p.authors.join(", ");
 			while (true) {
 				// Tries getting the name until a valid one is given.
@@ -1026,7 +1189,7 @@ class InitCommand : Command {
 			}
 			p.description = input("Description", p.description);
 			p.authors = input("Author name", author).split(",").map!(a => a.strip).array;
-			p.license = input("License", p.license);
+			p.license = license_select(p.license);
 			string copyrightString = .format("Copyright © %s, %-(%s, %)", Clock.currTime().year, p.authors);
 			p.copyright = input("Copyright string", copyrightString);
 
diff --git a/source/dub/init.d b/source/dub/init.d
index bb7da7f46..c39595642 100644
--- a/source/dub/init.d
+++ b/source/dub/init.d
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ void initPackage(NativePath root_path, VersionRange[string] deps, string type,
 	PackageRecipe p;
 	p.name = root_path.head.name.toLower();
 	p.authors ~= username;
+	// Use proprietary as conservative default, so that we don't announce a more
+	// permissive license than actually chosen in case the dub.json wasn't updated.
 	p.license = "proprietary";
 	foreach (pack, v; deps) {
 		p.buildSettings.dependencies[pack] = Dependency(v);
diff --git a/test/0-init-interactive.default_name.dub.sdl b/test/0-init-interactive.default_name.dub.sdl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7b8f8ba0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/0-init-interactive.default_name.dub.sdl
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+name "0-init-interactive"
+description "desc"
+authors "author"
+copyright "copy"
+license "gpl"
diff --git a/test/0-init-interactive.dub.json b/test/0-init-interactive.dub.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70481fd67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/0-init-interactive.dub.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+	"authors": [
+		"author"
+	],
+	"copyright": "copy",
+	"description": "desc",
+	"license": "gpl",
+	"name": "test"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/0-init-interactive.license_gpl3.dub.sdl b/test/0-init-interactive.license_gpl3.dub.sdl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b2979980
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/0-init-interactive.license_gpl3.dub.sdl
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+name "test"
+description "desc"
+authors "author"
+copyright "copy"
+license "GPL-3.0-only"
diff --git a/test/0-init-interactive.license_mpl2.dub.sdl b/test/0-init-interactive.license_mpl2.dub.sdl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b2a5ee422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/0-init-interactive.license_mpl2.dub.sdl
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+name "test"
+description "desc"
+authors "author"
+copyright "copy"
+license "MPL-2.0"
diff --git a/test/0-init-interactive.license_proprietary.dub.sdl b/test/0-init-interactive.license_proprietary.dub.sdl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..166cc6c70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/0-init-interactive.license_proprietary.dub.sdl
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+name "test"
+description "desc"
+authors "author"
+copyright "copy"
+license "proprietary"
diff --git a/test/0-init-interactive.sh b/test/0-init-interactive.sh
index 945838bd7..323cec321 100755
--- a/test/0-init-interactive.sh
+++ b/test/0-init-interactive.sh
@@ -3,20 +3,45 @@
 . $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/common.sh
 packname="0-init-interactive"
 
-echo -e "sdl\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n" | $DUB init $packname
-
 function cleanup {
     rm -rf $packname
 }
 
-if [ ! -e $packname/dub.sdl ]; then # it failed
-    cleanup
-    die $LINENO 'No dub.sdl file has been generated.'
-fi
-
-if ! diff $packname/dub.sdl "$CURR_DIR"/0-init-interactive.dub.sdl; then
+function runTest {
+    local inp=$1
+    local comp=$2
+    local dub_ext=${comp##*.}
+    local outp=$(echo -e $inp | $DUB init $packname)
+    if [ ! -e $packname/dub.$dub_ext ]; then # it failed
+        cleanup
+        die $LINENO "No dub.$dub_ext file has been generated for test $comp with input '$inp'. Output: $outp"
+    fi
+    if ! diff $packname/dub.$dub_ext "$CURR_DIR"/$comp; then
+	cleanup
+	die $LINENO "Contents of generated dub.$dub_ext not as expected."
+    fi
     cleanup
-    die $LINENO 'Contents of generated dub.sdl not as expected.'
-fi
+}
 
-cleanup
+# sdl package format
+runTest '1\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.dub.sdl
+# select package format out of bounds
+runTest '3\n1\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.dub.sdl
+# select package format not numeric, but in list
+runTest 'sdl\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.dub.sdl
+# selected value not numeric and not in list
+runTest 'sdlf\n1\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.dub.sdl
+# default name
+runTest '1\n\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.default_name.dub.sdl
+# json package format
+runTest '2\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.dub.json
+# default package format
+runTest '\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\ngpl\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.dub.json
+# select license
+runTest '1\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\n6\n3\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.license_gpl3.dub.sdl
+# select license (with description)
+runTest '1\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\n9\n3\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.license_mpl2.dub.sdl
+# select license out of bounds
+runTest '1\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\n21\n6\n3\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.license_gpl3.dub.sdl
+# default license
+runTest '1\ntest\ndesc\nauthor\n\ncopy\n\n' 0-init-interactive.license_proprietary.dub.sdl