> Software bugs were hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.
Not saying open-source is perfect, but if there was ever a good reason for copy-left licenses such as the #GPL where the end user has the right to ask for the source code, this is it.
Not that the post master would be able to understand it themselves, but their legal defence could request it, then have a trusted third party review it.
@stuartl Giving the Post Office access to the Fujitsu source code wouldn't have helped the people accused by the Post Office.
What would have been needed here would have been public code, going further than even copyleft.
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