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Heather Meeker is a prominent expert on the intricacies of these things, and wrote a guide to them whose title puns on the phrase “Open for Business”. The SPDX standard contains “identifiers” that specify these things and defines a “plus” operator that can be appended to them to indicate versioning. In 2018, a huge uproar was caused by Redis (“RED-iss”) changing one of these things to combat free-riding by cloud providers. The Open Source (15[1])Initiative (15[1])maintains a list of approved examples of these things that comply with their Open Source Definition. (15[1])A very informal one of these things is used by (*) “beerware”, (10[1])named for suggesting to buy the author a beer. “Permissive” examples of these things like Apache and MIT are contrasted with “copyleft” examples like GPL. For 10 points, Creative Commons has released popular examples of what texts that specify the use and distribution of software or other copyrighted works? ■END■

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