I don’t agree with you about the FOSS conclusion you made, because although sub-licensing MIT is valid, it contradicts the spirit of open source. Also, FYI, the Lerna license has returned to vanilla MIT. You might want to update the article.
https://github.com/lerna/lerna/commit/37642a066ed0243d6312240c49c635c3431a989b
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