I chose to do it for free to help other people. And picking a MIT license does the opposite.
Why? MIT license or public domain helps the most people, because anyone can use it. It being usable by corporations is purely additive, it can't subtract from the number of people you'd help with a copyleft license.
Huh? You release code so that people will have to rewrite it?
I really don't understand what your goal would be in releasing code at all, then.
Why? MIT license or public domain helps the most people, because anyone can use it. It being usable by corporations is purely additive, it can't subtract from the number of people you'd help with a copyleft license.