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Jul 9, 2019 at 21:21
I've always wondered why npm defaults to the ISC license rather than MIT. MIT seemed more well-known and similarly permissive. Turns out that ISC is essentially a shorter MIT!
ISC License
A permissive license lets people do anything with your code with proper attribution and without warranty. The ISC license is functionally equivalent to the BSD 2-Clause and MIT licenses, removing some language that is no longer necessary.

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