OSSMOSS

OSSMOSS is an open-source software platform designed to help organizations manage open-source components across their software supply chains. The project focuses on tracking usage, assessing licenses, and coordinating governance for dependencies, with an emphasis on transparency and reproducibility.

Its core capabilities include dependency inventory, SBOM generation in SPDX and other formats, vulnerability awareness, license compliance checks, and policy-driven governance. OSSMOSS can integrate with common package managers and CI/CD pipelines, offering dashboards, reports, and an API for automation.

Its architecture combines a core engine with a modular plugin system, allowing support for additional ecosystems through community-contributed plugins. The web-based user interface provides component-level views, while a command-line tool and REST API enable automation and integration into existing workflows.

OSSMOSS began as a community-driven project and was first released in 2020. It is maintained by a global community of contributors and governed by a maintainers' council with an open contribution process and a Code of Conduct. The project is released under the MIT license and hosts its code and documentation in a public repository.

Adoption ranges from small teams to larger organizations seeking open and auditable software supply chain tooling. The ecosystem includes a growing set of plugins for language ecosystems, build tools, and security services, and it competes with other open-source and commercial solutions in the software composition analysis space. The project roadmap emphasizes improved interoperability, enhanced policy enforcement, and cloud deployment options.