> Generally when I personally see code with an MIT License, I understand that I am able to copy whatever I want from that project to my own projects, I thought

> Generally when I personally see code with an MIT License, I understand that I am able to copy whatever I want from that project to my own projects, I thought that was the point of it. Do y'all not do the same? You are allowed to take and copy it to your project. You just need to retain the notice along with it - IANAL but I usually just copy the licence in a code comment along with the copied section (or file). I usually include a pointer to the original source for audit purposes. That doesn't make my project MIT licensed, but that part of the code that I lifted without substantial modification remains MIT licensed, even if I make my project closed source commercial. There's no way around that - I cannot claim it as my own since I have not written it. Same for public domain code.