GPL or GTFO! On a more serious note: Permissive licenses open a project up to unilateral exploitation by commercial entities and can lead to fractured ecosystems.

On a more principled note: permissive licenses (as compared to free software licenses) undermine the free software ecosystem and the freedoms it brings in the long term and the thing that uutils is doing - that is taking a GPL licensed project and rewriting it under a more permissive license is corrosive to free software. GPL applies not when corporations use a piece of software, but when they distribute binaries back to you. This is not about limiting the rights of corporations but about protecting the digital freedom of people.

It allows corporations to take without giving back.

It's why Sony and Apple based their operating systems on BSD over Linux.

I think a part of it may be that they are from the younger generation like myself, and most of them don't really know the history of software and FOSS, and MIT is just a safe option for them. I think they haven't really put in the time to read and undertstand the philosophy and logic behind FOSS and read the licenses and writings.

Your probably right. It was an old setup but ill own it. I inherited it (mitus touch) so I probably should have put more effort into switching.