You're right, open source and free software are not the same thing, but software licenced under the MIT licence is still free software. Even the FSF describes the MIT licence as a free software licence (see my other reply in this thread).
Yeah I'm still not following the loaded premise of this question. It's just a table telling people what the project is about.
An MIT-licensed project trying to not scare people away might have the same comparison table in their readme. They'd just flip around the green checkmark and red X.
https://www.osweekly.com/free-software-vs-open-source-why-th...