But at the same time Google uses the OS and contributes to the open source project, right?

And the cofounder worked at Apple for 12 years.

Apple has gotten caught even when they didn’t have the license and had to pay, but for every bad Apple there appears to be a net benefit from other contributors and a larger pie with private business investing in the space.

Each space and situation is different and might find a different license more appropriate.

For projects around bitcoin there’s a push for MIT so you can’t get rugged, and with nostr being “Public domain” grown has absolutely skyrocketed because of it prolly.

But devs need to decide where they want to see their code in the world as long as they still can.