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MIT is the de-facto license that says "Do what you want with the software, just give me credit. Also, I don't owe you anything".
It lets people do basically anything with it but protects you from:
People who would steal your project and claim they were the original creators (your name and copyright info is filled in the license which they have to include and mention)
Any sort of liability or warranty - people can't blame you for any damage done by your software
Don't GNU, MPL, EUPL, and other opensource licenses do the same? Why is MIT favoured?
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those are less permissive. mit license says "you want to make a new version and sell it? go ahead! be my guest" think of it as being the apache license with fewer words
You can sell GPL software, even without any changes. The less permission part would be "You want to close-source it and not contribute back? Go ahead!"