MIT vs. Unlicense – why do you pick one vs. the other?

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there seem to be only 2 "simple" choices. And Unlicense seems to have this big advantage of "public domain". But why do so many devs still pick MIT?

MIT requires attribution. If you care about that then it makes sense to choose it.

Also note that the FSF recommends CC0 over the Unlicense if you want to release something into the public domain, but in practice the difference probably doesn't matter.

but what big disadvantage is there to MIT and NOT releasing into public domain? And CC0 isn't "simple" imo, it's 122 lines long!

Public domain dedications are problematic. See https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/147120

For that reason some corporations (such as Google) may restrict employees contributing to those projects, or utilizing those projects in any way.

MIT requires attribution which some like for their work as public domain means someone may copy-paste your work and present it for their own.

ah, got it! thank u!

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