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> If you don't give a crap about your rights, choose MIT.

Can you elaborate on this, because as written here, this seems like a negative statement? As someone who doesn't know/care much for licensing, I just choose MIT when releasing code, because I don't care what someone else does with it.

Aside from someone using/modifying my code in a proprietary program without crediting me, can choosing MIT come back to me negatively?

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> someone using/modifying my code in a proprietary program without crediting me

This is exactly it.

You had the rights to further protect your work, but you didn't. That's what he means about not caring about your rights.

So what do you recommend? I just open-sourced my first library and I chose MIT licence because I feel it was what was recommended by github when they ask you to choose a licence. I really didn't explore my options much.

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