Is there any type of third-party certification for closed source software, similar to how we have ISO9001 for quality management? I’d prefer companies provide their software as open source, however I can imagine cases where the software genuinely doesn’t do anything malicious but might still contain trade secrets that the author would want to protect. In these cases, it would be nice to have some kind of certification body that could review the source and assert that it doesn’t contain spyware, etc., while still protecting the intellectual property.
Yes there is, in most countries you can first submit your code to the intelectual property office and then pay someone to audit it.