> The article makes the point that, in practice, permissively-licenced projects see more contributions back.

How are we measuring this? I mean, sure, MIT will get more contributions than GPL.

But the MIT code is used commercially. So you can get, say, 10x more contributions, but you're losing 100x more money. Is that a worthy tradeoff?

The idea of corporate contributions is that the company is probably making WAY more money off your code than they are spending contributing back to it. Otherwise, they probably just... wouldn't.