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Modifying LACA Product page to incorporate info on permissive open source license use

Sarah McCreesh requested to merge smccreesh-master-patch-81733 into master

Why is this change being made?

This MR is being submitted as part of LACA Product efforts to update its guidance on using open source libraries (utilising the Blue Oak Council list) at GitLab, to make it easier for team members to determine when legal input is required to use an open source license. This MR will also move this guidance to live in the LACA handbook (rather than the ENG handbook), so that LACA Product team members can efficiently update, as needed.

A separate MR to update the outdated guidance which sits in the ENG handbook is also being submitted here.

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Edited by Sarah McCreesh

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