diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 3fd03789..a9056b0a 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -11081,6 +11081,7 @@
       "version": "1.0.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
+        "@nodesecure/mama": "^1.0.0",
         "@openally/result": "^1.2.1",
         "fastest-levenshtein": "^1.0.16",
         "spdx-expression-parse": "^4.0.0"
diff --git a/workspaces/conformance/package.json b/workspaces/conformance/package.json
index 39d4844e..42b0c85c 100644
--- a/workspaces/conformance/package.json
+++ b/workspaces/conformance/package.json
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
     "node-estree": "^4.0.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "@nodesecure/mama": "^1.0.0",
     "@openally/result": "^1.2.1",
     "fastest-levenshtein": "^1.0.16",
     "spdx-expression-parse": "^4.0.0"
diff --git a/workspaces/conformance/src/extract.ts b/workspaces/conformance/src/extract.ts
index 1dc05700..8730f7d4 100644
--- a/workspaces/conformance/src/extract.ts
+++ b/workspaces/conformance/src/extract.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ import * as path from "node:path";
 import * as fsSync from "node:fs";
 import * as fs from "node:fs/promises";
 
+// Import Third-party Dependencies
+import { ManifestManager } from "@nodesecure/mama";
+
 // Import Internal Dependencies
 import * as utils from "./utils/index.js";
 import {
@@ -14,6 +17,7 @@ import {
 
 // CONSTANTS
 const kManifestFileName = "package.json";
+const kInvalidLicense = "invalid license";
 
 export interface ExtractAsyncOptions {
   fsEngine?: typeof fs;
@@ -25,16 +29,15 @@ export async function extractLicenses(
 ): Promise<SpdxExtractedResult> {
   const { fsEngine = fs } = options;
 
-  const packageStr = await fsEngine.readFile(
-    path.join(location, kManifestFileName), "utf-8"
+  const mama = await ManifestManager.fromPackageJSON(
+    location
   );
-  const packageJSON = JSON.parse(packageStr);
 
-  const licenseData = new LicenseResult();
-  licenseData.addLicenseID(
-    utils.parsePackageLicense(packageJSON),
-    kManifestFileName
-  );
+  const licenseData = new LicenseResult()
+    .addLicenseID(
+      mama.license ?? kInvalidLicense,
+      kManifestFileName
+    );
 
   const dirents = await fsEngine.readdir(location, {
     withFileTypes: true
@@ -66,10 +69,11 @@ export function extractLicensesSync(
     path.join(location, kManifestFileName), "utf-8"
   );
   const packageJSON = JSON.parse(packageStr);
+  const mama = new ManifestManager(packageJSON);
 
   const licenseData = new LicenseResult();
   licenseData.addLicenseID(
-    utils.parsePackageLicense(packageJSON),
+    mama.license ?? kInvalidLicense,
     kManifestFileName
   );
 
diff --git a/workspaces/conformance/src/utils/index.ts b/workspaces/conformance/src/utils/index.ts
index 2733ffdb..d27b64e5 100644
--- a/workspaces/conformance/src/utils/index.ts
+++ b/workspaces/conformance/src/utils/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-export * from "./parsePackageLicense.js";
 export * from "./extractDirentLicenses.js";
 export * from "./spdx.js";
diff --git a/workspaces/conformance/src/utils/parsePackageLicense.ts b/workspaces/conformance/src/utils/parsePackageLicense.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cbb6d70..00000000
--- a/workspaces/conformance/src/utils/parsePackageLicense.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-// CONSTANTS
-const kInvalidLicense = "invalid license";
-
-export interface PackageJSONLicense {
-  type?: string | undefined | null;
-}
-
-export interface PackageJSON {
-  license?: string | PackageJSONLicense;
-  licenses?: PackageJSONLicense[] | PackageJSONLicense;
-}
-
-// code from https://github.com/cutenode/liblice/blob/master/lib/parseLicense.js
-export function parsePackageLicense(
-  packageJSON: PackageJSON
-): string {
-  if (packageJSON.license !== undefined) {
-    if (typeof packageJSON.license === "string") {
-      return handleUndefinedAndNull(packageJSON.license);
-    }
-
-    if (typeof packageJSON.license === "object") {
-      return handleUndefinedAndNull(packageJSON.license.type);
-    }
-  }
-
-  if (packageJSON.licenses !== undefined) {
-    if (Array.isArray(packageJSON.licenses)) {
-      return handleUndefinedAndNull(packageJSON.licenses[0].type);
-    }
-
-    if (typeof packageJSON.licenses === "object") {
-      return handleUndefinedAndNull(packageJSON.licenses.type);
-    }
-  }
-
-  return kInvalidLicense;
-}
-
-export function handleUndefinedAndNull(
-  licenseString?: string | null | undefined
-): string {
-  // eslint-disable-next-line no-eq-null
-  return licenseString == null ? kInvalidLicense : licenseString;
-}
diff --git a/workspaces/conformance/test/utils.spec.ts b/workspaces/conformance/test/utils.spec.ts
index 6df3b31b..c4582004 100644
--- a/workspaces/conformance/test/utils.spec.ts
+++ b/workspaces/conformance/test/utils.spec.ts
@@ -65,73 +65,6 @@ describe("extractDirentLicenses", () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe("parsePackageLicense", () => {
-  it("should return 'MIT' for parsePackageLicense license MIT", () => {
-    const result = utils.parsePackageLicense({
-      license: "MIT"
-    });
-    assert.strictEqual(result, "MIT");
-  });
-
-  it("should return 'MIT AND (CC0-1.0 OR ISC)' for parsePackageLicense of Object", () => {
-    const result = utils.parsePackageLicense({
-      license: {
-        type: "MIT AND (CC0-1.0 OR ISC)"
-      }
-    });
-    assert.strictEqual(result, "MIT AND (CC0-1.0 OR ISC)");
-  });
-
-  test("parsePackageLicense of payload with licenses property", () => {
-    const result = utils.parsePackageLicense({
-      licenses: {
-        type: "MIT AND (CC0-1.0 OR ISC)"
-      }
-    });
-    assert.strictEqual(result, "MIT AND (CC0-1.0 OR ISC)");
-  });
-
-  test("parsePackageLicense of payload with licenses property as Array", () => {
-    const result = utils.parsePackageLicense({
-      licenses: [
-        {
-          type: "ISC"
-        }
-      ]
-    });
-    assert.strictEqual(result, "ISC");
-  });
-
-  it("should return 'invalid license' for a PackageJSON with no licenses", () => {
-    const result = utils.parsePackageLicense({});
-    assert.strictEqual(result, "invalid license");
-  });
-});
-
-describe("handleUndefinedAndNull", () => {
-  it("should return 'invalid license' for null or undefined", () => {
-    assert.strictEqual(
-      utils.handleUndefinedAndNull(),
-      "invalid license"
-    );
-    assert.strictEqual(
-      utils.handleUndefinedAndNull(undefined),
-      "invalid license"
-    );
-    assert.strictEqual(
-      utils.handleUndefinedAndNull(null),
-      "invalid license"
-    );
-  });
-
-  it("should return provided string primitive", () => {
-    assert.strictEqual(
-      utils.handleUndefinedAndNull("MIT"),
-      "MIT"
-    );
-  });
-});
-
 function createDirent(name: string, isFile = true) {
   return {
     isFile: () => isFile,
diff --git a/workspaces/conformance/tsconfig.json b/workspaces/conformance/tsconfig.json
index 310a9030..0e1e4ee0 100644
--- a/workspaces/conformance/tsconfig.json
+++ b/workspaces/conformance/tsconfig.json
@@ -5,5 +5,9 @@
     "outDir": "dist",
   },
   "include": ["src"],
-  "references": []
+  "references": [
+    {
+      "path": "../mama"
+    }
+  ]
 }