Huh, I wasn't trying to argue one license is better than the other. I was just trying to clarify what the licenses require. I didn't want someone to see your comment and think that it would be ok to use someone else's MIT-licensed code in a product without giving credit.

I take the MIT license and excise the credit clause for publishing my least important personal projects. I feel it gives me just enough cover (no warranty etc.) and avoids requiring people to stick my name into whichever unaffiliated project.

For work, I’ve definitely had to bury the fineprint MIT credits on some random help screen. It’s easy enough to do.

Re TFA: it’s kind of nice doing a bit of open source work on the job when you can reference or use random utility code later. There’s only so many times I want to write code for walking a dictionary in JavaScript or whatever.

As with anything, there are shades of gray and certainly more or less scrupulous ways to behave. Stealing GB’s of code is a bit much.