“The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.”
Microsoft forked a benchmark project and a template commit swapped the original author’s copyright line for “Microsoft Corporation.” The MIT license asks for exactly one thing, and that’s keeping the notice. Microsoft reverted it on Christmas Day after the original author’s Reddit post blew up. A trillion-dollar company’s tooling broke the only rule of the most permissive license there is.