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Short answer MIT is a permissive licence: you can use, modify, and redistribute the code under almost any terms. GPL is a copyleft licence: if you distribute a modified version, you must release your modifications under the GPL as well.
Short answer Permissive licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD) are generally approved by default. Copyleft licenses (GPL, AGPL) require case-by-case analysis before use in distributed products.