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8 Best Free and Open Source Software Bill of Materials Tools

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Discover the best free and open source tools for generating and analysing Software Bills of Materials on Linux.

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sbomnix – generate Software Bills of Materials for Nix

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

sbomnix generates CycloneDX and SPDX Software Bills of Materials for Nix flakes and store paths, with dependency and metadata analysis.

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CycloneDX CLI – command-line toolkit for BOM documents

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

CycloneDX CLI analyzes, converts, merges, signs, verifies and validates BOM documents, with support for CycloneDX and SPDX formats.

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bom – create, view and transform Software Bills of Materials

September 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

bom is a command-line SBOM multitool for creating, viewing and transforming SPDX documents from files, directories and container images.

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OSS Review Toolkit – automate open source compliance

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ORT automates dependency analysis, license compliance, vulnerability checks, policy evaluation and Software Bill of Materials generation.

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ScanCode Toolkit – scan code for licenses and software components

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ScanCode Toolkit detects licenses, copyrights, packages, dependencies and vulnerabilities in source and binary code with extensive outputs.

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SBOM Tool – scalable Software Bill of Materials generator

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

SBOM Tool generates and validates SPDX Software Bills of Materials for build artifacts, with component detection and CI/CD integration.

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Syft – generate Software Bills of Materials

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Syft generates Software Bills of Materials from container images, filesystems and archives, with support for SPDX, CycloneDX and attestations.

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