Comment by simendsjo

> Jesus almighty that is a lot of licenses. No wonder MIT has just become the unquestioned default.

This is a specific thing per ecosystem/community. Some use a lot of MIT, some Apache, some BSD, some LGPL, some Boost and so on.

I suspect a lot of this is due to the viral nature of licenses. What license is compatible with MIT? MIT obviously, so let's just choose that :)