The reasons for using GPL and AGPL is that it advertises 'other licences are available - for a cost - but this is the only one you get for free'.
The cost of using GPL licences is that any changes you make to it everybody gets to have and anything you create with it has to be licensed under that licence. It was designed to create a viral effect so that free software remained free and that people could make money from those who didn't like free.
The MIT licence says "I have tenure in some organisation that is getting its money from something else and which can pay me to spend time on this".
The cost of using GPL licences is that any changes you make to it everybody gets to have and anything you create with it has to be licensed under that licence. It was designed to create a viral effect so that free software remained free and that people could make money from those who didn't like free.
The MIT licence says "I have tenure in some organisation that is getting its money from something else and which can pay me to spend time on this".