[zeveb]

> I'm 100% certain that these companies would not have used my project if it wasn't MIT open source licensed.

Nope, instead they'd have hired you or a programmer like you — or figured out a way to make money from GPLed code.

The trouble with the MIT & BSD licenses is that they encourage corporations to freeload. That's why Google, Facebook, Amazon & Apple love them so much.

The great thing about the GPL is that it levels the playing field. We all get to share in a software commons.

[jondubois]

In spite of the MIT license and my project having thousands of GitHub stars, it took several years before any big reputable company started actually using it.

The problem is that if tou want to make an impact in your industry, you need big companies to be using your project; to achieve this, you need to distribut your project under a license that they like.