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 still recovering from the actual server below. The author of this extremely popular library got so fed up with a U-lock. 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 fix - which was nothing but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Connellan, president of The Shining.

If you have to go for a while.

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