The license matters. MIT allows for the embrace extend extinguish approach, or for companies to completely ignore contributions back to the main src.

Whatever he says he is doing doesn’t matter. In the long run a MIT license won’t be good. There’s a reason why the gnu core utils get so much work done on them. Because it’s required if you wish to use the code in your commercial applications

Y not gnome web

There is a big difference between what someone says they are doing vs why they are actually doing it