Why not? The vast majority of people who use software are not programmers and most neither know nor care what license the source of the programs they use is under. GPL is focused on the needs and wants of the relatively small faction that do care. Furthermore a large fraction of programmers are working on commercial or proprietary closed-source software. Probably 95% of software development is closed source. So if you want your code used as widely as possible, by as many different consumers as possible, you will put it under a more liberal license than GPL.IMO, the main difference between MIT and GPL is that under MIT, other users can take your source, modify it, and then keep the new source closed - from you and everyone else.
Why would you want that?
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