[shawnz]

Let's say the MIT license demanded that you retain the copyright notice in all source files in addition to just the license file.

What benefits would that give you over the current situation? Anyone who makes a copy already has to include the license text, why does it matter where they include it as long as it's in a conspicuous place?

The real decision point here should be: Do you want people to be able to use your work for commercial purposes, for free, without recontributing their changes? If not, then don't use the MIT license

[eternalban]

You're entirely correct.

Just now I remembered that back in my squandered youth I used to consider code to be a form of creative expression. Code is not my only creative outlet, but it remains an important one. I should not be using OSS at all. I don't even code for the user if I am ever honest about it: I code for the thing itself. Somehow, it seems, I got caught in a dominant paradigm and lost a sense of my own self and values regarding my creative work.