There are other possibilities, for example, the person may have thought that they were complying with the MIT licence by releasing the new project under the MIT licence too + including a mention of the original project in the README.
This, of course, is incorrect, and a cursory read of the very short licence text would show it to be incorrect.
This, of course, is incorrect, and a cursory read of the very short licence text would show it to be incorrect.
But I, too, am strongly favouring Hanlon's razor.