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Re: SPDX Generator with RefIDs and package hierarchy

Gary O'Neall
 

Hi Daniel,

 

I’m not sure I agree if you include commercial and open source tools.  If you’re generating the information primarily from package manifests, there are a few tools out there that generate SPDX documents across a wide variety of ecosystems.

 

Have you reviewed the tools referenced on spdx.dev/tools?  It includes a list of open source tools and a list of commercial tools.

 

Is your question restricted to open source tools?  Also, to help understand what you’re looking for, can you let us know which tools that generate CycloneDX SBOM’s you’re referring to?

 

I’m a bit surprised that more tool maintainers didn’t reply earlier beyond what Anthony and I provided.  I didn’t want to speak for them, but I’m pretty sure there as some tools maintained by folks on this distribution list that at least partially provide what you’re looking for.

 

Gary

 

 

From: spdx@... <spdx@...> On Behalf Of daniel@...
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Subject: Re: [spdx] SPDX Generator with RefIDs and package hierarchy

 

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So just to confirm with the community:

There is no single generator that can generate SPDX SBOMs, with dependency hierarchies, across different ecosystems (Python, Go, etc.) and for both containers & filesystems? The open-sbom-generator seems to work for filesystems, but not for containers. 

The closest we've found are one or two tools that only generate CycloneDX SBOMs, but we're also looking to support SPDX as well. 

Daniel

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