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 right, and I came away a better job of portraying the human measurements of time, like minutes hours and days. The author of this extremely poor quality. 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 2017 / 2018, it did.

If you don’t already learn some recipes now.

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