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MIT≠FOS
GNU is Free and forever free software... MIT not so much.
https://fossbytes.com/open-sources-license-type/
Point being, any forks of GNU will have a free version available, MIT carries no such limitation... making it a corpo favorite.
You can call it open source, but Free and Open source is questionable.
I feel like we're splitting hairs here. MIT is an extremely permissible license. The fact someone could take this and make a closed source fork doesn't affect the existence or openness of the MIT licensed releases