[sydbarrett74]

Relevant portion below, taken from this page (https://dev.to/sadeedpv/someone-copied-my-code-on-github-and...):

'With the MIT license, you should really also put your copyright and license notices at the top of each source file in a comment in addition to the license file in the repo. This way if someone uses one or more files but not entire repo, your copyright notice and license declaration stays with your code, unless they deliberately remove it. With only a license file you risk someone who only needs one of your source files separating those notices from your code accidentally with no ill-intention toward you or your work.'

[eviks]

No way, especially with bigger licenses that are hard-breaked, it's such a wasteful tax on readers' attention to have the first page of every file be some legal garbage

And the risk of copy&pasting just the code someone needs (it's not always/mostly at a file level) doesn't disappear

[sydbarrett74]

That 'legal garbage' is what reduces ambiguity.

As far as a tax on the reader, the reader is free to scan past the copyright section.

Your argument is vacuous.