> most MIT licensed projects still generally receive contributions from people using them commercially I agree. I’d speculate that projects being hosted on Git

> most MIT licensed projects still generally receive contributions from people using them commercially I agree. I’d speculate that projects being hosted on GitHub is a big part of that. With the code and discussions around it happening in the open, and the barrier to contribute substantially reduced it’s hard to justify forking it internally and maintaining the fork. The path of least resistance is to clone it from GitHub every time and to contribute changes back, regardless of license. For most projects we don’t need the GPL to compel this behaviour because that’s not what many (but not all) companies are doing in any case. This isn’t a blanket statement though. Obviously the size of the project matters, the scope of the changes made etc. For example phone manufacturers always fork Android and add their changes on top. They only release the code to be compliant with the GPL, and they do so grudgingly. Having Linux licensed under GPL benefits us. But other projects? Doesn’t make a difference. Who is forking (for example) git and making private improvements they don’t contribute back? No one. It would be just as feature filled, useful and successful whether it was MIT or GPL.