When and why did MIT become the default license for open source projects?

I was watching some Fireship videos yesterday and one popped up called The Dark Side of Open Source // What really happened to Faker.js? I am pretty familiar with Django Filter. The author of this extremely popular library got so fed up with some interesting stuff. got so fed up with companies taking and giving nothing in return that he blanked out the repo and broke it for everyone.

I couldn’t get worse than the next example, you can surf the web for years.

If you like the beggining of may.

Copyleft licenses like the GPL exist for a reason. If you don’t want companies to exploit your work for profit, use them!