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by austincheney 2186 days ago
Yes.

If you work in a secure environment or support critical infrastructure there are teams whose sole purpose is to approve/deny releasing software regardless of who wrote it. Such teams will typically require source code, written justification, senior management signed approval, and test validation. In the case where source code is not provided, such as closed source commercial software, the vendor will be required to accept liability for all losses due to their software as ratified by a signed contract.